Pilgrim's Pride donates $5M to Trump-Vance inaugural, largest donor

Pilgrim's Pride, a subsidiary of JBS USA, donated $5 million to the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee prior to January 2025. The contribution exceeded the combined inaugural donations from Apple's CEO, Amazon, Meta, and Google, making Pilgrim's Pride the single largest donor to the committee. The donation came while parent company JBS had a long-pending application for a dual listing on the New York Stock Exchange and faced multiple federal investigations, including a DOJ antitrust probe into human resources practices, an investigation into Pilgrim's grower contracts and payment practices, and involvement as an alleged co-conspirator in a DOJ antitrust lawsuit against data company Agri Stats.