After the decision, Elena Cardone, spouse of actual property investor Grant Cardone, launched a GoFundMe web page to assist cowl Trump’s large advantageous. The web page, entitled “Stand with Trump; Fund the $355M Unjust Judgment,” rapidly garnered help from a small variety of the previous president’s supporters.
“That is greater than a authorized fund; it is a clarion name to all patriots to rally in protection of a person who has by no means hesitated to face in protection of us,” Cardone wrote on the marketing campaign web page. “It is about exhibiting that when one in every of us is focused for championing the values that make America nice, he doesn’t stand alone.”
Cardone additionally took to X, previously generally known as Twitter, to say that donors can be “standing collectively towards unjust rulings like this the place a bias judges [sic] & corrupt authorized system is uncontrolled.”
Regardless of Trump’s web price of $2.6 billion as of September, inside 5 hours of its creation, the GoFundMe web page had raised over $18,000 from greater than 400 donors, every contributing between $5 and $1,500.