Major corporate interests and megadonors gave $239 million to fund Trump’s inauguration
The opening committee of President Donald Trump raised $ 239 million, and a new fundraising report appears, supported by $ 1 million from major companies and executives.
The huge distances are more than more than 109 million dollars that were raised in its first opening in 2017 (registry so far). Among those who wrote major checks by Trump to become government officials, as well as prominent (and leaders) companies with business in front of the administration, especially those in the oil, finance, technological and transportation sectors.
Pilgrim’s Pride Corp, a major poultry product, donated more than any other individual or company, as it sent $ 5 million to the Trump opening committee. Behind him was Ripple Labs, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain, which gave approximately $ 4.9 million.
A handful of energy companies gave at least $ 500,000 each – including Chevron, Konokovils, Exagonbyl, Shell, Oxidental Petroleum Corp, as well as the political arm of the American Petroleum Institute.
Artificial intelligence companies and cryptocurrencies also emerge with similar donations, including Solana Labs, Sam Altman, AI, Ripple, C3.AI, Coinbase, Galaxy Digital Services, Perplexity AI.
Amazon and Meta donated $ 1 million. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and CEO of Mita Mark Zuckerberg Attended Trump’s inauguration He received prominent seats in the Capitol Rotonda, where Trump was right after bad weather at the traditional external event. The CEO of Apple Tim Cook also gave a million dollars.
Micron, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Microsoft Computing Falls also submitted six -digit donations, as health care companies such as HIMS, Johnson, Johnson, Merck, Pfizer and AMGEN. Live Nation donated $ 500,000, and both Draftings and Fanduel have provided less.
Among the other main donors are those who have ties with the Trump administration, including some of the president ultimately exploited by the major management roles.
Gop Megadonor Warren StevensAnd that Trump exploited his ambassador to the United Kingdom, gave $ 4 million. Jared Essanman, Trump’s candidate to lead NASA, gave two million dollars, as Trump did to be an ambassador to Latvia, Melissa Arseros.
Tilman Fortitta, who was nominated to be an ambassador to Italy, gave one million dollars; The Minister of Education gave Linda McMahon a million dollars; Trade Minister Howard Lootnick, Cantor Fitzgerald, former employer, gave $ 1047,000; The head of the New York stock exchange, Jeffrey Socracher, the husband of the small business manager, Kelly Lovler, gave one million dollars; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessin gave $ 250,000.
The prominent Republican political donors also opened their pocket books: Miriam Adelesson and Ken Griffin gave one million dollars, and gave all family members in Ricks, Shawab and Divous, all of which are six numbers.
The opening committees are not subject to any limits to the contribution, although foreign citizens or companies cannot donate (but their US subsidiary companies). Within 90 days of each installationEach committee must report its total donations of $ 200 or more.
