Former President Donald Trump's fundraising machine sent an email with extremist rhetoric and antisemitic tropes less than two hours after his indictment became public.
Trump referenced a conspiracy theory about a network of people working inside the federal government to exercise power over ordinary people, which he calls "The Deep State."
- Trump also attacked Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg as being funded by George Soros, a major donor to Democratic causes and a popular target of anti-Semitism on the far right.
- Trump sent at least three other fundraising emails about the indictment, all using the same tone, selected all-caps words, and rhetoric as fundraising emails he sent roughly two weeks since he told supporters he expected to be arrested.
- The fundraising emails asked for money to go to an account that splits the money between Trump's 2024 presidential campaign and a fund called Save America.
- Several top-tier lawyers representing Trump have received payments from Save America, which has raised over $100M.
- Braddock, a public communication professor at American University, said Trump's fundraising emails are loaded with antisemitic language, some of which has been used to validate violence against Jews.
- Prosecutor Bragg's campaign finance disclosures with the New York State Board of Elections did not reveal Soros had personally donated to Bragg's campaign.
- Soros donated $1M to a political action committee called Colorofchange in May 2021.
