On June 22, The Trump campaign bragged about raising $2 million from donors from “it’s first fundraising e-mail.” The volume of SPAM complaints on Twitter, and Alexa web traffic statistics, suggest the large haul may have come, at least in part, by sending SPAM. If so, it wouldn’t be the first time SPAM allegations have followed the Trump campaign.

In April 2016 , the Donald Trump presidential campaign was sued by two people for allegedly sending unsolicited text messages. Unlike commercial SPAM e-mail, political SPAM e-mail is protected by the First Amendment . However, e-mail service providers could act to protect their users by filtering messages from known senders of SPAM to a SPAM folder.

The web traffic tracking service Alexa shows a suspicious percentage of recent traffic on the trump2016.com fundraising website, registered by The Trump Organization and used for recent fundraising appeals by the joint fundraising committee composed of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. (“DJTP”) and the Republican National Committee (“RNC”) , going to the unsubscribe.trump2016.com subdomain.

(Source: Alexa.com, 6/23/2016 3:13AM)

While it would seem to be awfully bad form for a national presidential campaign or its allies to send SPAM, numerous Twitter users have taken to the platform, in recent weeks, to complain about receiving unsolicited Trump campaign e-mails: