Former president Donald Trump is putting his fast-multiplying legal troubles to good use, raising $7 million and counting since he was indicted in Jack Smith’s classified-documents probe.

Trump has decried the prosecution as a persecution, and that message appears to be making waves with his supporters. The former president held the first major fundraiser of his campaign on Tuesday, the same day as his Miami arraignment and a speech at the Bedminster Club in New Jersey.

“Since deranged Jack Smith took the unprecedented step of weaponizing the justice system to attack his political opponent, Donald J. Trump for President 2024 has raised more than $6.6 million in just a few short days,” Trump’s campaign said in a Wednesday statement. CNN confirmed hours after the statement that the campaign had surpassed $7 million in donations.

“The American people will not stand for this corrupt attempt to interfere in the 2024 election against the leading candidate for President who will demolish the Deep State and finish the job of draining the Swamp,” the campaign added.

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Over $4.5 million of that sum was raised through digital donations. The campaign raised an additional $2.1 million at a Bedminster “candlelight dinner” with top donors. An attendee told Politico that Trump was seated at the head table with Senator Tommy Tuberville (R., Ala.), among others.

Trump has relied on small donors since he launched his 2024 campaign, but the recent numbers from Bedminster suggest the former president still has pull when it comes to large contributions.

The former president has found particular success in turning his indictments to his advantage, making campaign-style appearances after each arraignment and putting fundraising into overdrive. Trump also raked in $7 million in three days after Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg indicted him on charges of falsifying business records.

These periodic fundraising boosts could continue as Jack Smith mulls another indictment in connection with the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Fulton County, Ga., district attorney Fani Willis has also explained she will make a decision on whether to indict Trump this summer. Willis is investigating Trump’s alleged interference in that state’s 2020 election.

Polls taken since the indictment suggest Trump’s sizable lead against his nearest rival, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, has not been damaged. Three of the most recent surveys — one from Quinnipiac, one from Economist/YouGov, and the third from CBS News/YouGov — have Trump at 51 percent support or above, with DeSantis trailing by at least 30 points in all three.

The indictment-related fundraising boosts may prove important considering DeSantis’s fundraising prowess. The governor raised $8.2 million in the first 24 hours after his announcement.

“They’re not coming after me, they’re coming after YOU,” the Trump campaign wrote in an earlier email to supporters, echoing comments he made during his Bedminster speech.

“I just happen to be standing in their way and I will not be moving,” argued Trump on Tuesday.