Trump's criminal conviction is spurring big-dollar campaign contributions as son touts record 24-hour haul

Former president Donald Trump's criminal conviction is spurring high-dollar donors to flock to his side, with his campaign estimating that approximately $150 million will be raised in the coming days.

Charlie Gasparino, a senior correspondent for the FOX Business Network and the Fox News Channel, wrote in an opinion piece for the New York Post that a group of GOP billionaires and multimillionaires were waiting in the wings for the former president following his conviction for falsifying business records on Thursday.

"We spoke for two hours," one attendee told Gasparino. "Everyone explained the need for Trump to win given the dangerous direction of the country under Biden, and they said they were willing to do whatever to support him."

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Many showed their support, according to Gasparino, pledging an astounding $30 million to Trump's campaign on Thursday evening.

The Trump campaign said that they believe an estimated $150 million will come in the coming days, Gasparino wrote.

Following the 24-hour fundraising event, Trump's son, Eric Trump, touted the $52.8 million raised on "Jesse Watters Primetime" Friday.

"What’s really amazing, go back to 2016 for a second, the largest fundraising haul in history to that point, we did in one day, you know, $16 million," Eric Trump told Watters.

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"And as of a couple of minutes ago, we just announced $52.8 million in 24 hours, and we’re probably another five, six million dollars above that, based on the fact that that was exactly 24 hours from the indictment time, which was about 5:30 [p.m.]," he continued.

Minutes after the verdict was read in the first trial of the former president, the former president's team put out a fundraising appeal to supporters.

"Friend: Is this the end of America?," the presumptive Republican presidential nominee asked in the email. "I was just convicted in a RIGGED political Witch Hunt trial.

"My end-of-month fundraising deadline is just DAYS AWAY!" Trump emphasized in the email, which included a photo of the former president labeling him a "political prisoner."

Meanwhile, Biden's re-election campaign also quickly sent out fundraising appeals following the verdict.

"Despite a jury finding Donald Trump guilty today, there is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: At the ballot box," the Biden campaign wrote in a fundraising text to supporters Thursday evening. 

And it urged that "if you have been waiting for the perfect time to make your first donation to Joe Biden's reelection campaign, we're here to tell you today is the day."

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Fox News Digital's Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.

'Gossip Girl' star Taylor Momsen bitten by bat while performing on stage, needs rabies shots for 2 weeks

"Gossip Girl" star Taylor Momsen experienced a terrifying encounter with a flying bat while performing on stage with her band The Pretty Reckless in Sevilla, Spain, on Wednesday.

The 30-year-old singer-songwriter, whose rock band is opening for AC/DC on the European leg of their Power Up tour, was singing her song "Witches Burn" at Estadio La Cartuja when a bat attached itself to the bottom of her dress and bit her in the leg.

Momsen later shared a video of the incident as well as clips from her trip to the hospital, telling her fans that she would need to receive rabies vaccine shots for the next two weeks.

"So…ROCK AND ROLL MOMENT…in Sevilla Wednesday during "Witches Burn" of all songs… a BAT flew onto me and clung to my leg…."Momsen wrote in the caption of her Instagram post.

"In the moment I was performing and had no idea until the incredible crowd kept screaming and pointing," she continued. 

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"He was cute, but yes he bit me…so rabies shots for the next two weeks thanks to all the staff at the hospital who dubbed me #batgirl after seeing it on the local news that morning…more footage to come…that’s one for the books!!!! @acdc #pwrup #BATGIRL."

In the clip from the concert, Momsen was seen performing when she noticed that the crowd was trying to get her attention. 

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"You guys are pointing at something and I don't know what you're saying," she told the audience. The singer then turned around and bent over when she spotted the bat clinging to the bottom of her black and white lace slip dress.

"Holy f---!" Momsen exclaimed. She returned to the microphone and told the crowd, "There's a f------ flying bat on my leg right now."

Momsen remained calm and continued to stand at the microphone while crew members came over to help remove the bat. 

"I must really be a witch," she joked. The former model turned and smiled as a fan whistled. 

Momsen's unfazed demeanor apparently impressed the crowd with a fan calling out, "Muy professional!"

"Gracias!" Momsen told the fan as the audience clapped and cheered.

"It's alright," she said after the crew member removed the bat. 

"And the bat's fine," she added. "He's gonna be my new friend."

Momsen also included clips in which she was seen at the hospital while being treated for the bite. She flashed a thumb's up while wearing a black face mask and was then seen lying in a hospital bed.  

The Missouri native shared a video of the bite on her leg as well as a clip in which a nurse was seen administering a shot.

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Per the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, rabies is a serious illness that is almost always fatal if not immediately treated. Rabies infects the central nervous system and symptoms include delirium, abnormal behavior, hallucinations, hydrophobia (fear of water), and insomnia and eventually coma and death. 

Treatment includes "a dose of human rabies immune globulin (HRIG), and a series of four or five rabies vaccines, which must be administered as soon as possible after exposure," according to the CDC.

Momsen began her career as a child actor and landed her breakout role as Cindy Lou Who in 2000's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," starring Jim Carrey.

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She played Jenny Humphrey on the hit CW series "Gossip Girl" though she left the show after its fourth season in 2011. Momsen later told Elle magazine that she decided to retire from acting to focus on her music career. 

Momsen is the frontwoman of The Pretty Reckless, which she formed in 2009 with guitarist and vocalist Ben Phillips, bassist Mark Damon and drummer Jamie Perkins. 

The band has released four studio albums and scored seven number one singles on the U.S. rock charts.

The Pretty Reckless' tour with AC/DC kicked off on May 18 in Gelsenkirche, Germany, and will conclude on Aug. 17 in Dublin, Ireland.

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