Donald Trump’s golf club in New Jersey is organizing a fundraiser to collect more than $1 million for January 6 protesters entangled in various legal battles across the country.
The fundraiser is scheduled to be organized on September 5 at Bedminster Golf Club, where the former president is also invited as a headline speaker, although it remains unclear if he will attend the event.
New Gen Z, a Political Action Committee, is organizing the fundraiser with the help of The America Project, which has tasked its subsidiary advocacy group, Vote Your Vision, with organizing the event.
Numerous high-profile conservative personalities, such as former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and comedian Anthony Raimondi, are likely to attend the event and will click photos with donors, mostly those purchasing premium tickets for $50,000. Most of the tickets will, however, fall between $1,500 to $2,500 per person.
The event is majorly conducted to celebrate the song “Justice For All”, which features some January 6 prisoners, which the song makers claim were wrongly imprisoned, as well as the police and law enforcement opening fire and assaulting protesters gathered outside Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021. The song also features Donald Trump reciting his Pledge of Allegiance. The video pledges to “support certain prisoners denied their constitutional rights” and vows to donate any earnings from the track to cover the legal fees of multiple January 6 protestors.
According to one of the event organizers, L.J. Fino, who is also a producer of J6 Prison Choir, music royalties are unable to support families these days, so he is ready to go to every length to raise funds for the families who are impacted by the wrongful convictions after the January 6 protests.
Another event organizer, Sarah McAbee, stated that the United States was founded on the core principles of justice that are written in the US Constitution, adding that the treatment of individuals arrested after January 6 shows that all such principles have been violated.
Events on January 6 have helped Democrats paint Trump as a threat to democracy, a narrative that has helped them gain popularity among moderate voters. However, Trump has denied the accusations that he was involved in inciting the crowd and has long maintained that his followers only gathered to peacefully protest against what he described as fraudulent 2020 elections.
More than 1,200 people are facing a slate of criminal charges for their involvement in the riots, including but not limited to obstructing the government proceedings, attacking police, misdemeanor, and trespassing.
