Democrat Hillary Clinton had the best fundraising hour of her presidential campaign right after the Benghazi hearing ended, her aides announced Friday. 
 
 Campaign officials said donations soared between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. Thursday, after Clinton concluded a grueling 11 hours of testimony before a congressional panel investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks on a diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. Clinton camp did not disclose how much was raised, but officials said they had not sent out any solicitations to seek the money. 
 
 In all, the former secretary of State added 100,000 new donors in October, bringing her pool of contributors to more than 500,000 people, her campaign announced. 
 
 Donations of $250 or smaller accounted for 99% of the contributions Clinton’s campaign took in Thursday. 
 
 The Benghazi hearing sparked partisan fireworks between members of the committee, but Clinton won praise for her composure through the hours of intense questioning. 
 
 The fundraising haul caps a strong week for Clinton’s campaign that saw two rivals — Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee — end their campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination and a potential rival, Vice President Biden, decide against starting one in the first place. ||||| Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonHouse Judiciary Committee votes to request documents on Comey, Clinton GOP senator warns Trump: Panel won't take up attorney general nominee this year Overnight Cybersecurity: Facebook invests in group fighting election hacking | House panel advances DHS cyber revamp bill | Lawmakers mull cyber insurance for small businesses MORE has already reaped one tangible benefit from her 11-hour Benghazi testimony: cold hard campaign cash. 
 
 Clinton's director of communications, Jennifer Palmieri, told a gaggle of reporters after her boss's speech to a Democratic National Committee women's forum Friday morning that Clinton had her best hour of online fundraising during the entire campaign so far. The record money poured in between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. Thursday, just after the daylong hearing on the 2012 Benghazi attacks had ended, Palmieri said. 
 
 ADVERTISEMENT "People were apparently paying attention and were moved by it [the Benghazi hearing]," Palmieri said, without specifying a dollar figure for the amount of money raised. 
 
 Asked whether the Clinton campaign team had been using the former secretary of State's Benghazi testimony to solicit cash on Thursday night, Palmieri said it had not. 
 
 "We had, like, a hashtag 'I'm with her', and show you're with her, show you're staying with Hillary ... but we didn't ask for money." 
 
 Asked whether it was more than $100,000 raised in the hour, Palmieri said: "I don't know, but more than 100." 
 
 "My point isn't 'wow, we brought in a lot of money,'" she added. "The point is that it moved people." 
 
 "I just thought it was interesting, [the money came in] at 9 o'clock right when they [the Benghazi committee] stopped."
– Critics of Hillary Clinton aren't going to be happy to hear this: The Hill reports Clinton's campaign had its best hour of online fundraising immediately following the end of Thursday's 11-hour Benghazi hearing. "People were apparently paying attention and were moved by it," campaign staffer Jennifer Palmieri says. According to USA Today, Clinton was praised for her composure during the marathon testimony. The Hill reports Palmieri, who wouldn't give an exact amount raised, says it all happened without the campaign specifically asking for money. "We had, like, a hashtag," she says. "But we didn't ask for money." But it wasn't just that one hour. Politico reports donations have been pouring into the Clinton campaign since her testimony ended. The campaign says more than half the donations it received Thursday were from new donors, and almost all of them were for less than $250. During an event Friday, Clinton announced her campaign now has more than 500,000 contributors. That means the campaign added more than 100,000 new donors in October alone. As USA Today points out—between the fundraising numbers, Biden's announcement, and the folding up of the Webb and Chaffee campaigns—it hasn't been a bad week for Clinton despite the much-hyped Benghazi hearing.