Posted on 01/04/2025 12:30:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Since his victory in November, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s allies have raised well over $200 million for a constellation of groups that will fund his inauguration, his political operation and eventually his presidential library, according to four people involved in the fund-raising.
It is a staggering sum that underscores efforts by donors and corporate interests to curry favor with Mr. Trump ahead of a second presidential term after a number of business leaders denounced him following the violence by his supporters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Mr. Trump has promised to gut the “deep state” and made various promises to industry supporters. Among the pledged donors for the inaugural events are Pfizer, OpenAI, Amazon and Meta, along with cryptocurrency firms.
The total haul for the committee financing his inaugural festivities — at least $150 million raised, with more expected — will eclipse the record-setting $107 million raised for his 2017 inauguration, according to three people briefed on the matter who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to share internal financial information.
Other committees benefiting from the fund-raising blitz include a super PAC called Make America Great Again Inc. and its associated nonprofit group, which is expected to be used by Mr. Trump’s team to back his agenda and candidates who support it, while opposing dissenters. Mr. Trump has boasted about the haul, telling people during the Christmas holiday season that he had raised more than $200 million since the election. Mr. Trump’s team has repeatedly noted how many people have wanted to find ways to donate to him since his election win.
The Trump transition and inaugural committee did not return emails seeking comment about the fund-raising haul.
David Tamasi, a lobbyist who has raised money for Mr. Trump, dismissed a suggestion that corporate interests were giving...
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I think the Left was darn proud of Kamala for spending well over $1B on her very short political campaign. All that money just showed how amazingly popular she was! Of course, she wound up in debt, which might show some level of mismanagement and inability to run anything complex, but it was only a $20M shortfall, so it’s no big deal.
And here is Trump pulling in $200M even after the whole thing is over. And, for the Left, it just means he’s a bastard.
This fact must really burn the Slimes to the core.
Especially the fact that liberals like Bezos have paid social calls to Mar A Lago.
Biden: They had to bring up the presidential library. Can’t they let up?
Heard some tent city homeless people in Dem cities are donating a portion of their cash from collecting returnable cans and bottles to the library fund for Joe. And a successful Venezuelan gang leader has pledged to match the first $10,000 of donations. Loyalty.
Bill O’Reilly said a few months after Trump was forced out in the 2020 election: The drug gangs really love Biden. They know the overwhelmed border agents have no possible time to check the trucks and containers coming across and the dealers can bring in millions of dollars of fentanyl, cocaine and other drugs unimpeded. I tell you they love Joe Biden.
We will never know how much Biden has reeled in the last 50 years.
Xi orders another tea?.
The left are still in shock that 47 won. Hell, even I’m still a little surprised.
$15 million of that came from ABC News!
**Heard some tent city homeless people in Dem cities are donating a portion of their cash from collecting returnable cans and bottles to the library fund for Joe**
Paris-1979. A bunch of French prostitutes got together took up a collection for the Vietnamese boat people. Warmed my heart more ways than one.
Never heard of that. Showed compassion.
I wonder where he’ll put his Presidential Library. New York City? Manhattan? Queens? Or south Florida?
If Diddy wasn’t locked up she probably would have had a surplus. Those freaks are her peeps.
He reeled it in?
“…whopping $20M from top book publishers for chance to peek into the ‘skeletons’ in Biden’s White House”
Harris got $20mil for this ghost written crap which has no redeeming value on anyone’s scale.
I’d call THAT ‘reeling it on.
I’d call getting a billion for a campaign she had no intention of winning ‘reeling it in
I’d rather see it spent electing better members of Congress.
Of course, from those stupid fish who give him money. /s
They slant the news any way they can.
Around how much does it cost to stage an inauguration?
It only happens one time and on one day.
One would expect such an event to be covered within an annual budget for some branch of the government.
It’s not like the new president were going on an extended whistlestop tour of the entire upper 48 states.
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