to our country. For me, he's been indicted 34 times. >> Both supporters and protesters have been rallying in the city as former president Trump is expected there for a fundraiser tonight. Hello again everyone. >> I'm Julie Julie Haener and I'm Mike Mibach. His visit comes exactly one week after he was convicted of felony charges in New York City. KTVU political reporter Greg Lee live tonight in San Francisco. Greg, we heard 5:00 earlier. Here we are one hour later. What is the latest on Trump touching down in the city? >> Yeah Mike good evening. We have heard from multiple people that former President Trump was running late from a rally in Phoenix, Arizona. We understand his plane has just landed at SFO in the last few minutes here, which means he will be hopping in his motorcade and on his way here. That is good news, because as I step out of the way, we'll tell you we have seen dozens of guests arriving to this home on Pacific Avenue here, and we know that it is blocked off in multiple directions for several blocks of Pacific Heights here. We have seen a lot of police presence and the barricades here as these guests arrive. All of this as they await former President Trump barricades and police officers lined the streets of Pacific Avenue in San Francisco's Pacific Heights neighborhood, all of it for a high dollar fundraiser featuring former President Trump. One week after his criminal conviction in New York. >> And I'm really looking forward to being there, welcoming him. And, you know, kind of feeling the excitement of California's tech glitterati who have decided to publicly support President Trump. I think it's incredible. The energy is really palpable. >> The last time Mr. Trump attended a fundraiser in the Bay area was in September of 2019, when he was president, the sold out event, hosted at the home of venture capitalist David Sax. Tickets ranging from 50,000 a person to $500,000 a couple. >> Quite frankly, there's a lot of preference falsification going on in Silicon Valley. I know there's a lot of people in Silicon Valley who we know because we know who's coming. There's a lot of people who I do think support Trump. >> What you're seeing from these sort of billionaire national level tech leaders is their deep concern about the direction of this country, not just California. >> In the 4 to 8 hours after the guilty verdict, the Republican National Committee said it raised $70 million, bolstering a total of $141 million for the Trump campaign in May. In a fundraising email, Jimmy Kimmel wrote on behalf of the Biden-Harris campaign, saying this about Trump, he is protected by far right mouthpieces and billionaire mega donors who'd gladly eat crab cakes while the world burns, if it means they'd pay less in taxes. >> It seems pretty clear that most of Trump's largest donors, not just in Silicon Valley but around the country, are driven primarily by economic and financial questions. These are very wealthy people who generally benefit from lower taxes and less regulation. >> UC Berkeley political science professor Dan Schnur says despite early polling, it's too early to know the exact impact of Trump's conviction on voters. But he believes there will be some. >> The most reasonable expectation at this point, and it's worth keeping in mind. We've never had a political landscape like this before, where one of the two major parties nominees has been convicted of a felony at this point, it appears that there will be some shift away from Trump and in Biden's direction, but not an immense one. >> While the sold out audience is excited to hear from the former president, at least one neighbor says Mr. Trump is not welcome. >> If we want to have like a progressive identity being you know, very inclusive and all of those things that go along with it, you know, we should live our values and we should people, everybody should be rejecting people like Trump coming to our town. >> Now, this is just the start of a California fundraising swing for the former president. From here, he will go to Beverly Hills and Newport Beach for fundraisers there live in San Francisco, Greg Lee, KTVU, Fox two news. >> And Greg, you said he's going back down to Southern California. Is he actually wheels up tonight and headed that way, or is he staying in San Francisco? Do we know? >> Yeah. Mike, I have to tell you, as we have been trying to cover this event and the events to come, everyone has been very tight lipped. They have been very careful about releasing information, even to local law enforcemen
