Trump raises $9.4M since Georgia mug shot, more than $20M in August

This picture was worth a lot more than a thousand words.

Former President Donald Trump’s mug shot has been a boon for his 2024 campaign — helping him raise $9.4 million less than a week after he surrendered to authorities in the Georgia election interference case. 

With the mug shot windfall, the Trump campaign has now raised more than $20 million in August, Fox News Digital reported on Tuesday.

“Since the moment my mugshot was plastered all over the Internet in a vicious attempt to wrongfully turn me into a criminal, our movement has RAISED $9 MILLION from grassroots patriots like YOU,” Trump said in a statement released by the Trump Save America Joint Fundraising Committee on Tuesday.

“In fact, our campaign recorded its SINGLE GREATEST FUNDRAISING DAY EVER,” the 77-year-old said of his Georgia surrender bounty.

Trump’s fundraising numbers “spiked” soon after his historic, scowling mug shot was emblazoned on campaign merchandise stressing that he will “never surrender,” according to the report. 

The campaign sold 36,000 T-shirts, 24,000 coffee mugs and 8,600 posters bearing the image of Trump that was captured by authorities at the Fulton County jail, allowing it to rake in nearly $3 million off that merchandise alone, the outlet notes. 

The mug shot merchandise money has reportedly been “earmarked” for political and campaign activities, and will not be used to cover the 2024 Republican presidential primary front-runner’s legal expenses. 

The infamous portrait of Trump quickly went viral, even before the former president incorporated it into his first post on X, formerly known as Twitter, in more than 2 1/2 years. 

The post came just hours after he was booked in the Fulton County Jail Rice Street on Thursday after being hit with 13 counts by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis related to his alleged 2020 Georgia election tampering efforts. 

Trump has vehemently denied wrongdoing and decried the charges leveled in his fourth indictment since leaving the presidency as “election interference.”

Trump has routinely leveraged the criminal cases against him into fuel for his campaign. 

Following his first indictment in Manhattan over alleged hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, the Trump campaign touted a $5 million haul in the first 48 hours and $10 million over five days. 

His campaign also boasted about raising $6.6 million in the days following the former president’s federal indictment on felony charges for allegedly mishandling classified records.

Trump was also slapped with a four-count federal indictment earlier this month for alleged 2020 election subversion.

In total, the 45th president is facing 91 counts in all four indictments. 

Trump holds a nearly 41 percentage point lead in the GOP presidential primary race, according to a RealClearPolitics average of polls, despite the legal cloud surrounding his candidacy.