Trump And Friends Using Mar-a-Lago 'Raid' To Raise Tons Of Cash

Donald Trump and his Republican friends have decided that the raid on Mar-a-Lago is a great opportunity for them to raise a ton of money, and the fundraising texts and emails - along with anti-FBI swag from people like Marjorie Taylor Greene - have been hitting fast and hard. There is nothing that Republicans can't turn into a fundraising email, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

On the surface. Of course it appears that pretty much all Republicans, well, 90, 95% of 'em I would say are freaking out over the FBI, going down to Margo executing that search warrant. I don't wanna call it a raid because that's the term they're using. And it wasn't a raid. It was a legal, uh, search and seizure, but they've also decided that, you know what, we're never ones to let tragedy get in the way of a good fundraiser. So Donald Trump, Republican candidates, and even the actual Republican party itself have been using this event that happened on Monday as a massive fundraising tool. We have Donald Trump Tuesday morning, who texted his supporters Malago was rated. The radical left is corrupt return. The peop the power to the people will you fight with me donate. Then you had JD Vance who Donald Trump has endorsed in the Ohio Senate rate, who sent out a plea Monday night that said, this is not a drill.

Joe Biden is attacking president Trump for standing up for us. It's time we show we have president Trump's back act here. Then you have the RNC, the Republican national committee, Ron McDaniel went on Fox news and said the best way we fight back against this is go, go give money to Herschel Walker, go, go give money to JD Vance, go give money to all of these Republican candidates, because that's really what scares the FBI they've turned the whole thing. I mean, literally in a matter of hours, they turned the whole thing into just a giant fundraiser. And unfortunately, so far it appears to be working for them, but it's already evident even after just a few days of all of this, that the tide is turning on these Republicans more and more people are starting to wonder, wait a minute. Why aren't you Donald Trump releasing that warrant?

You know, if you say that all of this is made up, it's a political persecution. You could prove that by releasing the warrant and showing they got nothing on you, you know, your lawyers do, by the way, get a list of the things they took from Mar Lago. You could release that. Why haven't you? Those questions are starting to get a little bit louder. And Donald Trump and his legal team have made it clear. We're not gonna release it. Well, that just makes you look worse and more and more people are starting to see this. So I do think that we have immediately already seen a big change in the public opinion about what happened, right? Initially Republicans thought, oh man, this is it. This is the thing that's gonna get a lot of sympathy for Trump, Alyssa Farra, Griffin, who's been cooperating greatly with the January 6th committee has trashed Donald Trump on CNN. Relentlessly said, oh, you just handed him the white house. Well again, in the immediate aftermath, it

Looked like that. Maybe I still don't agree with that a hundred percent. But I think that support has already dwindled down. Like the more facts that come out about this, the more it appears that Trump is hiding, the more they are trying to push the conspiracy that the FBI planted stuff to make him look bad. Yeah. That's not helping his case. And the fact that they've turned it into a massive fundraising tool, that's also probably not gonna help convince the public that this was a legitimate political persecution Republicans seized on the opportunity, but they got a little too greedy and this could end up backfiring on them tremendously.