Ballroom donors won $50B in contracts after giving to Trump project, watchdog group finds

[struth]

I am sure its just a coincidence. Donor’s to Trump’s ballroom received $50Bn in sweet sweet government contracts. Totally coincidental.



Ballroom donors won $50B in contracts after giving to Trump project, watchdog group finds

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...er-giving-trump-ballroom-project-report-says/



President Donald Trump has repeatedly touted the gifts as a boon to taxpayers, but critics of the project say the administration’s refusal to release a full list of donors creates the potential for corruption.



More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion during the past six months, according to a report released Thursday by a government watchdog group.



Fourteen of the 27 known corporate donors to the $400 million project, which would replace the East Wing that Trump demolished in October, have seen their government business grow in that window, according to the report from Public Citizen, a nonprofit. Most of those same companies are also facing federal enforcement actions over alleged wrongdoing or have had such actions suspended by the Trump administration since the start of Trump’s second term, the nonprofit found.



The donors have sprawling interests that touch nearly every aspect of American life, including defense contracting, technology and energy. Trump has repeatedly touted the gifts as a boon to taxpayers, but critics of the project say the administration’s refusal to release a full list of donors creates the potential for corruption.



“These giant corporations aren’t funding the Trump ballroom fiasco out of the goodness of their hearts,” said Jon Golinger, a public policy advocate at Public Citizen and an author of the report. “They have massive interests before the federal government, and they hope to curry favor with, and receive favorable treatment from, the Trump administration.”



The analysis builds on a report from the group last fall that found the known donors held $279 billion in government contracts over the previous five years and had spent $1.6 billion on political contributions and lobbying during that time. The new report focuses on contracts awarded in most of the seven months since the East Wing’s demolition, which Trump’s critics have argued created new urgency around potential conflicts of interest.



Of the known donors, no single contributor received more new business with the government since giving to the project than Lockheed Martin. The defense giant received roughly $43.8 billion in new or expanded contract funding since last fall, according to the report.



Booz Allen Hamilton followed, with more than $4.2 billion, and Palantir, with just over $1 billion. Other donors that received new or increased contracts include Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Caterpillar and T-Mobile. (Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.) Altogether, more than two-thirds of corporate ballroom donors — 19 of 27 — have received government contracts over the past five and a half years, totaling $338 billion, the report says.



Sixteen of the 27 donors are facing federal enforcement actions or have had such actions suspended by the Trump administration, the report found, including major antitrust reviews involving Amazon, Apple, Meta and Nvidia; labor rights cases involving Google, Lockheed and Meta; and securities matters involving Coinbase and Ripple, whose cases have been dropped or scaled back under Trump.

Wow, shocker, people don’t do things out of the goodness of their heart

News at 11

 

[g5000]

Answer: Yes, a 23 year old link is all I got.

You fuckwits whined about shit Obama did in college, hypocrite.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

The bizarre thing about MAGAs is they never seem to realize their submissive acceptance of Trump's egregious corrupt behavior is a setting of lower and lower bars of conduct which inevitably come back to bite them in their mouth-breathing faces.

They have thrown all their morals out the window without even the slightest hesitation.

Now the only tangentially ethical thing they can plausibly whine about any more is...pronouns.

They are too low IQ to understand any of that. They literally don’t have the brain power. They’re just machines that operate as programmed.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Wow, shocker, people don’t do things out of the goodness of their heart

News at 11

Agreed.its called bribery.

 

[struth]

Agreed.its called bribery.

Haha no doing things because you expect a return on your investment or consideration for your support is not bribery

 

[Zincwarrior]

Haha no doing things because you expect a return on your investment or consideration for your support is not bribery

Its literally the definition, dumbass. No wonder Trump likes ignorant yokels.

 

[struth]

Its literally the definition, dumbass. No wonder Trump likes ignorant yokels.

No, not doing things out of the goodness of your heart is not the definition of bribery

bribery

www.law.cornell.edu

 

[LeftofLeft]

And? I was just responding to your comment about books. He's been there done that.

So you don’t have problem with indirect donations to candidate or is it just Trump?

 

[San Souci]

You tell us. It's your fantasy.

DiuckSpeak

 

[citygator]

I will love to see what you idiots do with Trump's Big Beautiful Ball Room after he leaves office. You can't tear it down because that would violate history. And, he's moving a Big Beautiful national security operations center underneath the ball room. Are you going to spend millions of dollars bulldozing the ball room down but leave the operations center? I hope there's a way he can build his name right into the load bearing walls so that you can't take his name down.

You’re in a cult.

 

[markef]

Yep. The Swamp was drained and replaced by an ocean of grift, graft, and corruption. Donors to Trump’s ball room invested $400M into it and received $50B in contracts within just the first 6 months of gifting the money. That is a 12,400% return on the investment in real math. Trump math that might be a billion percent return, not sure.

All righties see is a God anointed hero doing his good works glorifying himself like God wants him to do and selling access like God wants Trump to do. Nothing to see.. just move on. Meanwhile the unprecedented and unaddressed by congress or the courts corruption and grift continue unabated.

Trump ballroom donors awarded $50B in federal contracts in last six months: report

More than half of corporate donors to president’s pet project have recently received new or improved government deals for their services, Public Citizen analysis reveals

www.independent.co.uk

More than half of the 27 publicly-identified donors to President Donald Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom have been awarded new or expanded federal contracts since construction work began, according to a watchdog’s report.

Fourteen of the donors to Trump’s pet project saw their government business grow in the first six months after he ordered the demolition of the East Wing, with the contract awards worth a combined $50 billion, new analysis from Public Citizen reveals.

Robert Reich? The God- and Christian-hating leftist socialist democrat gangster steering democrat leaders astray for decades?

 

[markef]

Please cite when another President did this since 1900. I will exclude the first century as thats too fuzzy.


Did a US President get tens of millions in contributions to fund rail contracts in CA to those donors? Please cite which one.


You tell us. You brought it up. Did a US President get tens of millions in contributions to fund rail contracts in CA to those donors? Please cite which one.

Don't listen to Reich. He is a shrimp of a man who has devoted his entire life to political fraud and corruption in exchange for corrupt increases in personal wealth and selfish recognition.

 

[krichton]

the story is bullshiiiit.....

Why is it bullshit? Where is the counter argument?

 

[Rawley]

Why is it bullshit? Where is the counter argument?

Those contractors have averaged $50B a year in contracts for the past five years. The $50B is average and unrelated to the Ballroom.

 

[Rambunctious]

Those contractors have averaged $50B a year in contracts for the past five years. The $50B is average and unrelated to the Ballroom.

Thank you Rawley... they know this... they use misinformation and rewrite the news against Trump...

 

[Rambunctious]

Why is it bullshit? Where is the counter argument?

These are multi billion dollar companies... which came first the chicken or the egg.... come on man stop being played by the hate Trump media...