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Coldwater

(1,132 posts)
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 07:13 AM Nov 2025

Report: Donors to Trump's White House ballroom have $279B in federal contracts

$300 million combined is a drop in the bucket for these companies which have billion-dollar contracts with the government or are looking for a favorable outcome into their federal investigations for wrongdoing.

Most of the publicly identified donors to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom have high-stakes business before the administration, ranging from billions in government contracts to federal investigations into their companies, according to a report released Monday by a government watchdog group.

More than half of the companies that donated are facing or have recently faced federal enforcement actions tied to alleged wrongdoing that includes engaging in unfair labor practices, deceiving consumers and harming the environment, according to the report from Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization. The nonprofit, founded in 1971 by left-leaning political activist Ralph Nader, focuses on corporate money and influence in government. The donors have sprawling interests that touch nearly every aspect of American life, including tariffs, technology, taxation, online privacy and manufacturing.


Link

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/report-donors-to-trump-s-white-house-ballroom-have-279b-in-federal-contracts/ar-AA1PJLfn?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6909eacfba794ca7bdbd4482fc728cf7&ei=18

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Report: Donors to Trump's White House ballroom have $279B in federal contracts (Original Post) Coldwater Nov 2025 OP
feces will drop from the sky upon... samnsara Nov 2025 #1
Another theft of US treasury, taxpayer dollars. Irish_Dem Nov 2025 #2
I'm just going to point out... Takket Nov 2025 #3
Trump won't need fancy tables and waiters in his new banquet hall, just troughs to feed these corrupt pigs. sop Nov 2025 #4
This what he meant by "draining the swamp" nuxvomica Nov 2025 #5
Bribery doesn't cost The Wizard Nov 2025 #6
Pay for play, bribery, conflict of interest, corruption... Dem4life1970 Nov 2025 #7

samnsara

(18,740 posts)
1. feces will drop from the sky upon...
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 07:14 AM
Nov 2025

...those walking through those front doors.

or....a few well placed cockroach nests about the facility

....or a light show projected on the front depicting Epstein and trump

..or toilets plugging and flooding the dance floor ( all those ball gowns drenched with piss!!)

....or recordings of all those attending the Epstein Ballroom with names plastered all over social media..

.....or a power failure

....loudspeakers outside the event


Takket

(23,560 posts)
3. I'm just going to point out...
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 07:29 AM
Nov 2025

That just because drumpf’s personal lawyers at DOJ refuse to investigate bribery doesn’t mean it isn’t illegal and only that statute of limitations prevents it from being prosecuted at any time in the future. Drumpf is immune. Corporations are not. And I hope anyone with aspirations of being AG under a future Dem president is watching.

Dem4life1970

(1,051 posts)
7. Pay for play, bribery, conflict of interest, corruption...
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 09:16 PM
Nov 2025

...after this awful person in the White House is gone, may the stain of his corrupt legacy not be continued by anyone in either party.

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