Five years after declaring he didn’t desire rich donors’ cash due to the fact that he would not be beholden to anyone, President Donald Trump is again at an abundant donor’s oceanfront estate on Friday night to collect $10 million, with tickets set at $580,600 per couple.
This specific rich donor, beef jerky mogul Troy Link, resides in a $9 million, 9,000- square-foot home in Hillsboro Beach, a wealthy suburban area of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Trump showed up there late Friday afternoon following a main go to previously at U.S. Southern Command in close-by Doral.
Taking six-figure contributions is no longer at all unusual for Trump.
A HuffPost analysis of Federal Election Commission information from Jan. 20, 2017, through May 30, 2020, reveals that during Trump’s presidency, the Republican National Committee has collected an overall of $1304 million from the 555 donors who have actually offered the party at least $100,000 each. Among them: Elizabeth Uihlein, the president of Wisconsin’s Uline Inc., who has actually given $1,382,600; longtime Washington, D.C., lobbyist C. Boyden Gray, who has actually provided $1,033,000; and Charles Schwab of the Charles Schwab Corp., who has provided $576,300
Trump’s main incredibly PAC, America First Action, has collected $753 million from 90 such six-figure donors, consisting of $10 million from Tim Mellon of Saratoga, Wyoming; $8 million from Geoffrey Palmer of Beverly Hills, California; and $5 million each from longtime Republican donors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson of Las Vegas.
As he started running for president in 2015, Trump stated that the system of accepting big contributions was corrupt and that he knew this personally because he could make political leaders do “whatever the hell” he wanted by contributing to their projects.
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