US EditionWhite House withheld names of some donors to Trump’s $300M ballroom, report says
Several major corporations and individuals with potential conflicts of interest donated to the $300 million project, with the White House withholding some donor names to honor anonymity.
- President Donald Trump’s $300 million ballroom, funded by private donors, saw the White House omit more than three dozen names from a list released last month, a White House official said donors may remain anonymous.
- BlackRock, investment company, billionaire TikTok investor Jeff Yass and Silicon Valley chipmaker Nvidia were omitted from last month's donor list despite stakes in Panama Canal ports and potential Trump-backed trade deals.
- Publicly disclosed donors include Amazon, Apple, Google, HP, Microsoft, Coinbase and Ripple, while two healthcare companies seeking Medicare reimbursement and Vantive, whose CEO Chris Toth attended a donors' dinner, were not listed.
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Corporate Donors to Trump’s White House Ballroom Beset by Conflicts, Received $279 Billion in Government Contracts in the Past Five Years
The corporate and billionaire donors to Donald Trump’s gaudy ballroom project are beset by conflicts of interest, according to a new Public Citizen report.Here are some quick facts from the report: Two-thirds of the 24 known corporate donors have recent government contracts for projects, totaling $279 billion over the last five years. Lockheed Martin is the largest of the government contractors, with $191 billion in federal contracts over the la…
Google, Meta, Apple. They all want to finance the new construction project of US President Trump. However, the list of donors is supposed to be longer than previously known. Some donors seem to prefer to remain anonymous.
Trump’s team offers to keep some ballroom donors incognito, NYT finds - The Boston Globe
The White House has promised transparency about funding for a new ballroom. But the identities of several donors to the project have been withheld from the public, the New York Times found.
Google, Meta, Nvidia: The list of well-known supporters for the US President's prestigious project is long, but apparently incomplete. The »New York Times« wants to know donors who wanted to remain anonymous.
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