Aug. 2, 2021, 10:02 a.m. ET
Despite departing from bureau and being barred from the starring societal media platforms, erstwhile President Donald J. Trump was the Republican Party’s astir ascendant fund-raiser successful the archetypal fractional of 2021 and ended June with a warfare thorax of much than $100 million, according to caller national run filings made this weekend.
Mr. Trump raised acold much wealth than immoderate different Republican via WinRed, the party’s main processing tract for online donations, records show, and much than each of the 3 main fund-raising arms of the Republican Party itself. His astir $102 cardinal successful currency connected manus was besides much than each of the enactment committees.
The adjacent strongest online fund-raiser among Republican politicians was Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, who delivered the G.O.P. response to President Biden’s archetypal code to Congress successful the spring. Mr. Scott raised $7.8 cardinal online.
Mr. Trump’s advisers inaccurately announced connected Saturday that “his affiliated governmental committees raised astir $82 million” successful the archetypal six months of 2021.
That fig counted astatine slightest $23 cardinal successful transfers to his caller governmental enactment committees that had really been raised past twelvemonth successful different Trump-affiliated accounts, according to an investigation of national filings.
Jason Miller, a spokesperson for Mr. Trump, defended the operation’s accounting. “If we didn’t denote this full amount, you’d beryllium asking wherefore we’re ignoring each of this period’s receipts,” helium said of the transfers.
All told, WinRed’s filings showed that Mr. Trump had collected much than $56 cardinal online into assorted accounts successful the archetypal six months of the year.