1. Who chooses to spend $800,000+ to help Trump become the next president?
We got a peak this week when a new joint fundraising committee, Trump 47, filed its first FEC report
The filing revealed 20 people have donated $800,000 or more
Follow along for the gory details
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2. Jose "Pepe" Fanjul ($814,600)
✅ Controls sugar empire, an industry that receives billions in annual subsidies from the US gov't
✅ In 2022, Dominican Republic subsidiary banned from importing goods to the US after CBP found evidence of "the use of forced labor"
✅ Employed white nationalist as an "executive assistant"
3. Steve Wynn ($806,300)
✅ Billionaire casino mogul
✅ Forced to resign following @WSJ report that, for decades, he pressured employees into performing sex acts
✅ Sued by Justice Dept in 2022 for lobbying Trump on behalf of the Chinese gov't without registering as a foreign agent
4. Geoffrey Palmer ($814,600)
✅ Real estate tycoon
✅ Calls efforts to increase affordable housing "immoral" and "not American.”
✅ Sued LA to stop eviction moratorium at height of pandemic
✅ Accused in class-action lawsuit of illegally withholding security deposits (settled for 12.5 million)
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6. Woody and Suzanne Johnson: $1,612,600
✅Heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune
✅ Engaged in $300 million tax avoidance scheme
✅ As Trump's ambassador to the UK, pressured the gov't to move the British Open to a Trump golf course
✅ According to Inspector General made "inappropriate comments on race, religion or gender" to embassy staff
7. Robert Bigelow ($824,600)
✅ Owner of Budget Suites of America
✅ Believes that there are aliens on earth right now
✅ During the pandemic, filed 144 evictions, ignoring the eviction moratorium
✅ In April 2023 called the prospect of Trump winning the nomination a "travesty"
8. More profiles of Trump's biggest donors in today's newsletter:
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