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more right wing trust fund billionaire kids controlling America... oh and the dems have Soros...
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Bill Haslam
Haslam in 2016
49th Governor of Tennessee
In office
January 15, 2011 – January 19, 2019
Personal details
Born William Edward Haslam
August 23, 1958 (age 65)
Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
Political party Republican
Spouse Crissy Garrett (m. 1981)
Children 3
Education Emory University (BA)
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Website Government website
William Edward Haslam[1] (/ˈhæzləm/; born August 23, 1958) is an American billionaire businessman and politician who served as the 49th governor of Tennessee from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Haslam previously served as the 67th mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee.
He was born in Knoxville and graduated from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He began his career in business, joining his father, Jim Haslam, who was the founder of Pilot Corporation. Haslam rose to president of Pilot Corp in the 1990s, after his brother Jimmy Haslam became the company's CEO. Haslam then left Pilot and from 1999 to 2001 was the CEO of the e-commerce and cataloging division at the department store chain Saks Fifth Avenue. He then became a consultant at Saks and later served on the board of directors at Harold's Stores, Inc. He is a co-owner of a minor league baseball team, the Tennessee Smokies, and is set to become majority owner of the National Hockey League's Nashville Predators by 2025.
He was elected Mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee in the 2003 Knoxville mayoral election with 52% of the vote. He was reelected in the 2007 Knoxville mayoral election, winning 87% of the vote, and served until 2011. After incumbent Governor Phil Bredesen was term-limited, Haslam declared his candidacy for the office in January 2009. He defeated U.S. Representative Zach Wamp and Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey in the Republican primary with 47% of the vote and went on to defeat Democratic businessman Mike McWherter with 65% of the vote in the 2010 general election.
A 2015 Forbes article estimated Haslam's net worth at $2 billion, making him the nation's wealthiest elected official at that time.[2] He was the wealthiest state governor in America, until Democrat J. B. Pritzker of Illinois took office in January 2019.[3][4]
In the fall of 2019, Haslam became a visiting professor of political science at Vanderbilt University.[5]
Early life, education, and business career[edit]
Haslam was born in 1958 in Knoxville, Tennessee, the third child of Jim Haslam, the founder of Pilot Corporation, the parent company of the convenience store and travel center chain, Pilot Flying J, and his wife, Cynthia (Allen). Jim Haslam has been a Republican Party fundraiser and University of Tennessee donor and trustee for several decades.[6]
Haslam was educated at the Webb School of Knoxville, where he became active in the Christian group Young Life.[7] He later attended Emory University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in history in 1980.[8] He is a member of the Beta Chi chapter of the Sigma Chi International Fraternity.[9]
As a teenager, Haslam began working part-time in his father's corporation.[8] He had made plans to teach history and eventually become a minister.[9] Following his university graduation, he returned to Knoxville to work for Pilot in hopes of learning more about the business world before entering the seminary, and eventually decided to stay with the company.[9] He was elevated to president of the company (with his brother, Jimmy, as CEO, and father as chairman) in 1995.[9]
In 1999, Haslam joined Saks Fifth Avenue as the chief executive officer of the e-commerce and catalog division.[10] He left Saks in 2001, and joined the board of the Dallas-based clothing chain, Harold's Stores Inc., later that year.[9]
Haslam is one of the owners of the Tennessee Smokies, a minor league baseball team in East Tennessee.[10] His brother, current Pilot Flying J CEO Jimmy Haslam, became majority owner of the Cleveland Browns in 2012.[11]
Mayor of Knoxville[edit]
In 2002, Haslam announced he was running for Mayor of Knoxville, inspired in part by a conversation he had had with then-Chattanooga mayor (and later United States Senator) Bob Corker. Knoxville's mayoral elections are nominally non-partisan,[12] but Haslam was known to be a member of the Republican Party when he ran for the office. His opponent in the race, Knox County commissioner Madeline Rogero, criticized Haslam as an oil company puppet, and blamed his father for the appointment of controversial U.T. president John Shumaker, an attack Haslam dismissed as "petty, personal politics". On September 30, 2003, he defeated Rogero by a 52% to 46% margin.[13][14] He was sworn in in December 2003.[15]
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Jimmy Haslam
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Jimmy Haslam
CEO, Pilot Company
$8.7B
Real Time Net Worth
as of 12/23/23#267 in the world today
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Not to be confused with subject's father, Jim Haslam, founder and former CEO of Pilot Corporation.
Jimmy Haslam
Haslam in 2013
Born James Arthur Haslam III
March 9, 1954 (age 69)[1]
Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
Alma mater University of Tennessee
Occupation(s) Businessman, NFL, MLS and NBA team owner, philanthropist
Years active 1974–present
Spouse Susan Bagwell (m. 1976)
Children 3
Parent(s) Jim Haslam
Cynthia Haslam
Relatives Bill Haslam (brother)
Awards Two-time MLS Cup champion
James Arthur Haslam III (born March 9, 1954) is an American businessman and sports executive. He is the chairman of the board of the Pilot Flying J truck stop chain. He and his wife Dee own the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL), the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer (MLS), and a stake in the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Haslam has won two MLS Cup Championships (2020 and 2023) as owner of the Crew.
His father Jim Haslam founded the Pilot Corporation in 1958 as the Pilot Oil Corporation.
Personal life[edit]
Haslam, who lives in his native Knoxville, Tennessee, is the elder brother of Bill Haslam, former Governor of Tennessee.[2] He is married to Susan "Dee" Bagwell Haslam, CEO of RIVR Media, part of the family ownership group of Pilot and co-owner of the Browns and Crew. They have three adult children, James Bagwell Haslam (adopted 2016), Whitney Haslam Johnson, and Cynthia Haslam Arnholt and five grandchildren.
While attending the University of Tennessee, Haslam was a roommate of Bob Corker, who went on to become a United States Senator from Tennessee. He is a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.[2]
Pilot Flying J[edit]
Haslam began his career at Pilot Corporation in 1976. In 1980, Haslam was named vice president of sales, development and operations. At that time, Pilot operated 100 convenience stores with annual fuel sales of about 125 million gallons. Pilot opened its first travel center in 1981, and by 1996 – the same year Haslam was named president and chief executive officer – the company operated 96 travel centers and 50 convenience stores and its total gallon sales had reached 1.2 billion. Pilot Corporation attained yet another milestone in 2001 when it joined with Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC to form Pilot Travel Centers LLC.
In 2008, Pilot Corporation announced that CVC Capital Partners had acquired 49.8% interest in Pilot Travel Centers LLC, facilitating the sale by Marathon Petroleum Company (formerly Marathon Ashland Petroleum) of its interest in Pilot Travel Centers. Pilot Corporation retained 50% ownership of Pilot Travel Centers LLC. In 2015, the Haslam family acquired all of CVC Capital Partners’ shares in the company. Pilot’s convenience store operations continue to be fully owned by Pilot Corporation. In 2010, Pilot Travel Centers LLC joined with Flying J Inc. In 2012, Pilot Flying J acquired Western Petroleum and the majority ownership of Maxum Petroleum and in 2012 formed Maxum Enterprises LLC, d/b/a Pilot Logistics Services. In 2014, Pilot Logistics Services merged with Thomas Petroleum to form Pilot Thomas Logistics. Pilot Flying J subsidiary Pilot Thomas Logistics is one of the fastest growing energy logistics companies in North America.
Pilot Flying J is one of the largest top 10 privately held companies in the United States and employs more than 24,000 employees. The Pilot Flying J network provides customers with access to more than 70,000 parking spaces for trucks, 4,800 showers and 4,300 diesel lanes featuring DEF at the pump.
In April 2013, the Federal Bureau of Investigation executed a search warrant and affidavit detailing a five-year fraud scheme by the Pilot Flying J chain. The company paid restitution to customers and agreed to pay a $92 million penalty pursuant to a Criminal Enforcement Agreement.[3] |
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look at this ultra partisan right winger...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/openai-suspends-bot-developer-for-congressman-dean-phillips-the-washington-post/ar-BB1h0KHn?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=d4b834b910a54349a63073a817f3695f&ei=10
OpenAI suspends bot developer for Congressman Dean Phillips - The Washington Post
| Quote: | (Reuters) - Microsoft-backed OpenAI has banned the developer of a bot mimicking Democratic presidential hopeful Congressman Dean Phillips, the first action the ChatGPT maker has taken in response to what it sees as a misuse of its artificial intelligence (AI) tools in a political campaign, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.
OpenAI did not immediately respond to a Reuters' request for comment.
Dean.Bot, powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT was created by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs Matt Krisiloff and Jed Somers, who started a super PAC named We Deserve Better supporting Phillips, ahead of the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, the report added.
The PAC has received $1 million from billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who called it "by far the largest investment I have ever made in someone running for office" in a post on social media platform X.
The super PAC, had contracted with AI start-up Delphi to build the bot. OpenAI suspended Delphi's account late on Friday, noting that OpenAI's rules ban the use of its technology in political campaigns. Delphi took down Dean.Bot after the account suspension, the report added.
We Deserve Better did not immediately respond to a request for comment while Delphi could not be immediately reached for comment.
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allow its tech including ChatGPT and the image generator dial
Dean.Bot, which had a disclaimer explaining that it was an AI tool, could converse with voters in real-time through a website, in an early use of an emerging technology that researchers have said could cause significant harm to elections, the Post reported.
Earlier this month, OpenAI emphasized that its policies prohibit its technology from being used in ways it has identified as potentially abusive, such as creating chatbots pretending to be real people, or discouraging voting. |
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sinclair oil, banks, media
and we have george sorros...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323551004578437534279577290
Billionaire Owned Sinclair Oil, Sun Valley Resort
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/under-the-dome/article10295681.html
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Holding’s political connections to North Carolina politics date back to Dan Moore’s bid for governor in the early 1960s and the campaigns of the late Sen. Jesse Helms. His family owns First Citizens Bank and he leads several businesses, from a broadcast company to a family farm. (He acknowledges he was “born with a silver spoon.”) Holding lives in Johnston County outside the district but worked in the area for years. “I have worked in the 2nd District. That’s where people associate me,” he said. The economy would be his focus. “I am mad as hell about it,” he said, adding, “the problem in Washington is not the American people.” As for two brothers serving together in Congress, Robert Holding said he’s not sure how it would play with voters. George Holding was recently named the second most conservative member of Congress by National Journal. Robert Holding said he’d give him a run for that ranking.
Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/under-the-dome/article10295681.html#storylink=cpy |
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this trust fund hater wants to make sure dems do not win. This trust fund hater is brothers of the Pittsburg media owner who funded Paula Jones lawsuit against Clinton and even paid for her nose job Richard mellon Scaife another trust fund hater kid.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-reclusive-heir-is-giving-millions-to-help-trump-and-rfk-jr/ar-BB1jZLlK?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=4f2947fc686f4ea3b7b796b7ca8c01d3&ei=5
Mellon has given a whopping $82 million to mostly conservative candidates and groups on the federal level since the start of 2022, with an additional $70 million in the 2020 election cycle. His political contributions in recent elections mark a significant shift from his limited previous involvement. Before 2018, Mellon had given a combined total of roughly $350,000 since 1996.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-and-rfk-jr-have-the-same-largest-donor/ar-BB1iIlCD?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=e5fa68e4eb754e2c8d9225b9996c440b&ei=11
Donald Trump and RFK Jr Have the Same Largest Donor
| Quote: | The biggest individual contributions to Donald Trump's and Robert F. Kennedy Jr's 2024 presidential Super PACs in January both came from the same longtime Republican mega-donor, according to filings.
Timothy Mellon, heir to the Mellon banking fortune, donated $5 million to the Trump-aligned MAGA Inc. fundraising attempts in January, as well $5 million to a Super PAC supporting the Democrat-turned-independent's presidential bid the same month, Federal Election Commission (FEC) listings reveal.
Mellon, the grandson of former U.S. treasury secretary Andrew Mellon, is known to be a longtime donor to Republicans such as Trump. He gave $20 million to the Trump-aligned America First Action Super PAC in 2020.
Mellon first donated to a Super PAC supporting Kennedy Jr.'s White House bid, American Values 2024, last July when the son of former Senator Bobby Kennedy and nephew of the former President John F. Kennedy was still running as a Democrat.
Mellon gave American Values a total of $15 million in 2023, according to FEC filings, covering a period when Kennedy Jr. ran as a Democratic and independent presidential candidate. The billionaire was also found to have donated $10 million to the Trump-aligned MAGA Inc. in the second half of last year, making him the largest contributor to both Super PACs.
Trump and Kennedy Jr.'s campaign teams have been contacted via email for comment.
Related video: Democrats will 'break all the rules' to keep RFK Jr. off 2024 ballot: Mark Gorton (Fox Business)
at least a year the DNC tried to keep RFK
Reacting to multimillion dollar donations from Mellon, Alex Floyd, rapid response director for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), said in a statement: "Today's news that Donald Trump's largest donor has given another $5 million to RFK Jr.'s Super PAC confirms what we already knew: RFK Jr. is a stalking horse for Trump in this election."
Earlier this month, the DNC placed billboards in Michigan which noted that both Kennedy Jr. and Trump were being backed by the same billionaire donor.
"RFK Jr. powered by MAGA/Trump. Same biggest donor Timothy Mellon," the billboards read.
In a previous statement, a spokesperson for Kennedy Jr.'s campaign told Newsweek: "Donors from across the political spectrum are supporting the Kennedy campaign as they are tired of the corruption in the two-party system.
"Instead, donors want an independent candidate who will heal the divide, restore the middle class, end the forever wars, unravel corporate capture, and end the chronic disease epidemic."
January's FEC filings show that Trump's official campaign donations are trailing those of President Joe Biden.
Trump ended last month with just over $30 million cash in hand, down from the $33 million he reported at the end of 2023.
In comparison, Biden's campaign managed to raise more than $42 million in January, bringing their available cash to $130 million heading into the 2024 election. |
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oh my goodness isn't this just precious.... the hypocrisy of this... what soros has about 1/100 the money right winger elon has.
ya he is not a right winger, BS... and telling his employees how to vote...
Funny he calls a person a sorros backed... like Sorros has the influence or money of the worlds largest media and richest man in the US or world does anyone in the right wing controlled media point this out...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/other/elon-musk-urges-tesla-employees-to-vote-out-austin-s-soros-backed-da-report/ar-BB1jobWF?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=7533b967611c40649dd94e40939b08d1&ei=52
Elon Musk urges Tesla employees to vote out Austin's Soros-backed DA: report
| Quote: | Tesla CEO Elon Musk worked to rally Austin, Texas, voters to oust the county's George Soros-backed District Attorney Jose Garza on Super Tuesday, and reportedly even urged his own employees at the electric vehicle giant's headquarters in the area to pull the lever for a candidate that will "actually prosecute crimes."
Musk took to his social media platform X Tuesday morning, calling on voters in the greater Austin area to "please go to the polls and vote for a new" Travis County DA, sharing a post from Garza's primary challenger, fellow Democrat Jeremy Sylestine.
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, looks on as he attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France, June 16, 2023. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, looks on as he attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France, June 16, 2023.
Garza took office in deep blue Travis County in 2021 after a campaign backed by progressive billionaire Soros, pledging to "reimagine" criminal justice and prosecute police officers.
But Garza's critics — including Sylestine, who previously worked in Garza’s office before starting his own practice — argue that Garza’s office has not advocated for victims of crime and has promoted policies that make the city less safe.
In making his case on X Tuesday, Sylestine emphasized that "More than anything else, the story I am trying to tell is that the promise of standing with victims and survivors has not been met," by Garza's office.
AUSTIN ‘AT THE BRINK OF DISASTER’ AS POLICE SHORTAGES HIT CRISIS LEVEL: ‘GOD HELP US ALL’
"The stories we're bringing forward including domestic violence and child abuse cases ending in poor results are real," Sylestine wrote. "They are horrifying stories."
Sylestine also pointed to a backlog of 6,000 cases that had accumulated under Garza and accused the DA of "run[ing] off 75 experienced felony prosecutors" on his watch.
Garza has defended his record as district attorney, saying that he is "doing exactly what Travis County voters elected him to do, fixing our broken criminal justice system by standing with survivors, working to end the excessive use of force by police, and prioritizing treatment over incarceration for nonviolent drug offenses." |
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and the dems have soros... how much money do these ulines have in total, does it make Soror look poor?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/packaging-billionaires-to-help-fund-trump-campaign-ft-reports/ar-BB1jBVrZ?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=dfda16b271724c0c8f3fc2f8e3f74239&ei=30
Packaging billionaires to help fund Trump campaign, FT reports
| Quote: | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative billionaires Liz and Dick Uihlein will help fund Donald Trump’s campaign, giving the former president financial support as he seeks to catch a fundraising lead built by President Joe Biden, the Financial Times said on Saturday.
The Uihleins, who founded the Uline shipping and packaging company from their basement in 1980, had donated to the Republican primary campaign of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who dropped out of the race in January.
Uline did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters.
News of the couple's decision came after the former president won 14 out of 15 states in the Super Tuesday primaries and his last Republican rival, Nikki Haley, quit the race, the FT said.
Her exit all but assured that Trump will be the party's nominee and face off again against Biden, a Democrat.
Trump has fallen behind Biden in fundraising ahead of the Nov. 5 general election. Trump's cash holdings dropped to just over $30 million at the end of January, down from around $33 million a month earlier, his campaign told the Federal Election Commission.
Biden, facing a less competitive process for his Democratic Party's nomination, told the FEC his campaign ended January with about $56 million in cash, up from $46 million in December.
Trump's legal expenses have grown to hundreds of millions of dollars as he grapples with 91 criminal counts across four cases. On Friday, he posted a $91.6 million bond to cover the defamation verdict in favor of writer E. Jean Carroll.
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Now remember, money of course plays a very significant role
The Uihleins had each given $1.5 million to DeSantis and Liz Uihlein told the FT she would give a similar amount to Trump.
The Wisconsin-based couple have given more than $250 million to federal candidates and political groups since the 2016 election cycle, the FT said, citing the nonprofit OpenSecrets. They backed Trump in the two previous elections, before seeking an alternative candidate to support for the 2024 race.
In an interview with the newspaper, Liz Uihlein said both Trump and Biden were already well-known to voters and she wondered how much donations helped at this stage.
"These two guys are very well-defined," she told the FT. "I don’t understand why everybody has to give all this money."
She also expressed qualms over Trump's rhetoric.
"Everybody likes Trump’s policies," Liz Uihlein said. "But we have almost 10,000 people that work for us and I would never talk to them the way Trump talks to people." |
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again wile the dems have Soros, look at how many billionaires there are for trump I have listed here are a few more. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/billionaires-sought-to-help-fund-trump-bond-in-civil-fraud-case-sources-say/ar-BB1kwD3J?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=8cf309e76a614a8ac6d39e12e26e7d71&ei=14
Billionaires sought to help fund Trump bond in civil fraud case, sources say
| Quote: | (Reuters) -Some major Republican donors were working together to help U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump fund the original bond amount needed to cover his $454 million civil fraud judgment ahead of Monday's deadline, three sources briefed on the matter told Reuters.
Former Republican President Trump needs to pay a bond in a New York civil case in which he was found liable for fraudulently inflating his net worth by billions of dollars to secure better loan and insurance terms.
On Monday he won a bid to delay the enforcement of the judgment if he posts a smaller $175 million bond within 10 days, but until that last-minute reprieve he appeared to be struggling to raise the original amount and risked having his properties seized.
Billionaire hedge fund founder John Paulson was involved in the behind-the-scenes effort by donors concerned about Trump's legal woes and looking to help provide money toward the bond, two of the sources told Reuters. Oil and gas magnate Harold Hamm was also involved, one of those sources said.
The sources asked not to be identified in order to speak freely about the matter, which has not been previously reported.
Paulson, the founder of Paulson & Co, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Reached by phone and asked about his involvement, Hamm, the founder of oil company Continental Resources, appeared to hang up. A spokesperson for Hamm did not respond to requests for comment.
In response to a request for comment, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said "there was no coordinated effort." He added that Trump had "more than enough cash" to pay the judgment in full.
A fourth source, a Trump ally, said he had direct knowledge of one donor who offered more than $10 million toward the bond over the weekend, before being told it was not necessary.
After Monday's court decision allowing a smaller bond, Trump said he would now be able to pay.
"I'll post either the $175 million in cash or bonds or securities or whatever is necessary, very quickly," Trump told reporters in New York.
Surety companies would have likely required Trump to post about $558 million in collateral for the original bond, or 120% of the judgment, according to Trump's lawyers.
Full details of the billionaires' efforts to raise funds, such as how much each donor had potentially pledged, were not immediately available. One source said the group had pooled the full amount originally due Monday. It was not clear whether the mega-donors would offer to help fund the new bond.
It was also unclear whether Trump would have to provide collateral or other guarantees to the benefactors.
The potential help from Trump's billionaire allies shows that he retains some deep pocketed-support in his quest to win back the White House in the Nov. 5 presidential election against Democrat Joe Biden.
It also highlights how big donor money is playing a potentially different role in this presidential election as Trump faces a major financial squeeze amid multiple legal judgments and expenses.
Paulson and Hamm are both involved in an upcoming campaign fundraiser for Trump that is unrelated to the efforts around the bond. An invitation shows Paulson listed as a host and Hamm serving as a co-chair.
Funds raised at the April 6 event in Palm Beach, Florida, will go to Trump's campaign, the Republican National Committee, state Republican parties and a group that has been paying some of Trump's legal fees, according to the invitation.
Trump has talked about selecting Paulson as his Treasury secretary should he win the presidency, according to a separate source briefed on the matter.
LITTLE TRANSPARENCY ON BOND
There is no obligation to disclose the origins of funds obtained for a bond.
The terms of Trump's $91.6 million bond for a defamation verdict in favor of writer E. Jean Carroll, for instance, were not disclosed. That bond was posted on March 8 by Federal Insurance Co, part of the insurer Chubb, which said it requires that bonds be fully collateralized.
In Trump's civil fraud judgment, the bond would stave off the state's seizure of his assets while he appeals Justice Arthur Engoron's Feb. 16 judgment against him. A bonding company would be on the hook for any payout if Trump loses an appeal and proves unable to pay.
Donors helping to pay for Trump's bonds could draw scrutiny from election regulators or federal prosecutors if the benefactors were to give Trump amounts exceeding campaign contribution limits.
While the payment would not be a direct donation to Trump's campaign, federal laws broadly define political contributions as "anything of value" provided to a campaign.
Some 30 surety companies approached through four separate brokers turned down Trump's attempts to secure the original bond needed to cover the $454 million judgment, his lawyers said earlier in March.
Had the pause not been granted and had Trump not able to post the original bond on Monday, New York Attorney General Letitia James could have asked a court to start seizing assets, including prized real estate holdings like 40 Wall Street in Manhattan.
(Reporting by Alexandra Ulmer. Additional reporting by Liz Hampton, Lananh Nguyen, Nathan Layne, Greg Roumeliotis, Gram Slattery, Luc Cohen, Jack Queen and Carolina Mandl.Editing by Colleen Jenkins, Nia Williams and Michael Perry) |
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Donald Trump Fundraiser Charges Couples $1.6 Million
| Quote: | Donald Trump's fundraiser this Saturday in Florida is aiming to bring in more than $40 million to his campaign, made possible by couples being charged some $1.6 million collectively for admission.
The event comes a little over a week after President Joe Biden amassed approximately $26 million for his campaign at a fundraiser at New York City's Radio City Music Hall, lauded as the biggest political fundraiser ever and featuring former Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in attendance.
The event in Palm Beach will be hosted by hedge fund billionaire John Paulson and feature businesswoman Linda McMahon, casino magnate Steve Wynn, former Trump White House Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, and Trump's former GOP primary rivals Senator Tim Scott, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum and businessman and former presidential primaries candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, according to information obtained by Newsweek.
Each attendee must pay $814,600 and host committee members must fork over $250,000 per person.
Others expected in attendance include oil and gas businessman Harold Hamm, casino magnate Phil Ruffin, conservative mega-donors Robert and Rebekah Mercer, sugar tycoon Pepe Fanjul, and Key Square Group founder Scott Bessent.
"The response to our fundraising efforts has been overwhelming, and we've raised over $33 million so far," Paulson told the Financial Times on Wednesday. "There is massive support amongst a broad spectrum of donors. The dinner is relatively small in nature, and we are almost at our cap."
The event is on track to surpass $43 million, according to Axios, which would exceed Biden's historic fundraiser by nearly $20 million.
"Can confirm we expect to raise $43 million," a Trump campaign spokesperson told Newsweek on Thursday.
Newsweek reached out to the Biden campaign via phone for comment.
Money has reportedly come from Trump personally calling donors, notably billionaires, and encouraging polling numbers facilitating support.
That financial haul for the Biden camp in one evening eclipsed the $20 million raised by the Trump campaign throughout February.
It also comes as the incumbent president and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) are nearly doubling their Republican rivals, with the DNC boasting some $97.5 million in cash compared to the $44.8 million for the Republican National Committee (RNC).
Trump has also held fewer rallies this current campaign compared to his 2016 and 2020 election bids, drawing mockery from the Biden campaign.
"We are two weeks into the general election and Donald Trump can't raise money, is hiding at his country club, and is letting convicts and conspiracy theorists take over his campaign," Biden campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa told the Associated Press late last month. "That is not a winning strategy."
Paulson is reportedly high up in the running to become the next U.S. Treasury Secretary should Trump be victorious this November, according to Bloomberg, which cited unnamed people familiar with Trump's thinking. |
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what the lame media does not even mention is what the supreme idios citizens united does which also does not include what the russians chineses and middle east oil dictators contribute via online and associated funding involvement that make these visible contributions insignificant. I mean just one oil dictatorship gave trumps son in law 2 billion. again no media is pointing this out.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-raises-50-million-in-one-night-but-he-s-still-courting-his-biggest-2020-donor/ar-BB1laqFQ?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=13f2a9a8c0c34ff1818223316972d8f4&ei=13
Trump Raises $50 Million in One Night, but He’s Still Courting His Biggest 2020 Donor
| Quote: | PALM BEACH, Fla.—Donald Trump used a splashy fundraiser at a billionaire’s mansion here to showcase his consolidation of the Republican megadonor class, pulling in $50.5 million Saturday. But his biggest donor has yet to write a check.
Miriam Adelson—who with her late husband, Sheldon Adelson, were the largest donors to Trump’s 2020 effort with $90 million in contributions—hasn’t yet given to Trump’s 2024 bid. She is among a dwindling number of big-name holdouts, which also include Blackstone Chief Executive Officer Stephen Schwarzman and Elliott Management’s Paul Singer. |
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