Donations In, Favors Out

As president, receives the privately funded helicopter landing pad at the White House and, by his own account, asked that it include a carved White House seal after learning Sikorsky was paying for it.

Received Moroun's lobbying meeting as Commerce Secretary, then called President Trump after the meeting — a key step in the chain of events that preceded Trump's public threat to block the bridge.

Stands to benefit commercially if the Gordie Howe Bridge is blocked or delayed, as it would protect the Ambassador Bridge's monopoly on cross-border toll traffic in the Detroit-Windsor corridor.

Listed as an individual donor and cofounder of cryptocurrency exchange Gemini pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

As FIFA president, took Trump's call and granted the review that reinstated Balogun, a departure from FIFA's handling of World Cup red cards and a continuation of his years-long effort to cultivate the president's favor.

Received a presidential commutation lifting his 12-year federal sentence, $1.75 million fine, and $15.7 million restitution order. The underlying convictions covered FARA violations, tax evasion, illegal foreign and conduit campaign contributions, and witness tampering. His criminal defense was handled by David Warrington, now Trump's White House counsel (recused from the clemency deliberations per the White House).

As Health Secretary, telephoned Ohio Governor Mike DeWine in the fall of 2025 to urge him to spare kratom from a state ban and target synthetic 7-OH instead; his department oversaw the FDA changes that eased scrutiny of kratom.

As the Trump DOJ's senior leadership, presided over the department's shift away from corporate criminal enforcement and the decision to close the Abbott probe in favor of a civil settlement; has publicly criticized charging companies without also charging individuals.

Listed as an individual donor and cofounder of cryptocurrency exchange Gemini pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Co-owner of Executive Branch; son of Trump Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff.

Managing partner of Habba Madaio & Associates and Trump's lead attorney in the E. Jean Carroll civil cases. Named Counselor to the President at the start of the second Trump administration.

Subject of the transition legal review; reported to have solicited retainers from people seeking administration posts, including a substantial retainer tied to Bessent's Treasury bid. Denied the allegations as "false and defamatory."

UFC president and longtime Trump ally; staged the White House fight and, in a May 2026 letter, asked Trump to reverse the 2025 tax law's cap on deducting gambling losses.

Chairman and chief executive of Paramount Skydance and son of Trump ally Larry Ellison; he personally addressed Justice Department staff concerns in a two-hour interview that senior leaders credited when they cleared his company's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

Founding member of Executive Branch; Trump White House "crypto czar".

Partner at Dhillon Law Group representing Trump and Trump-aligned political clients. Named White House Counsel at the start of the second Trump administration.

Co-owner of Executive Branch; profits from the $500k membership sales and provides the family conduit to the President.

Paid $1 million for a seat at a MAGA Inc. candlelight dinner at Mar-a-Lago in early April 2025 promising face-to-face access to Trump. Three weeks later, Trump pardoned her son Paul Walczak, wiping his 18-month federal tax-fraud sentence and $4.4 million in restitution. Has hosted at least three Trump campaign fundraisers and attended VIP events at the 2017 and 2025 inaugurations.

Partner at Blanche Law and part of Trump's defense team during the New York hush-money trial. Took a role as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General at the start of the second Trump administration and served for a period as acting Deputy Attorney General before Blanche's confirmation.

The U.S. team's leading scorer, whose one-match World Cup suspension was lifted, making him eligible for the round-of-16 match against Belgium.

Co-donated $25 million with his wife Anna Brockman to MAGA Inc., a super PAC supporting President Trump, framing the contribution as advancing pro-AI policy goals.

Founder of Dhillon Law Group and a longtime RNC committeewoman from California. Confirmed in April 2025 as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice.

Listed as an individual donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Former Fox International Channels executive whose 2023 bribery-related conviction was vacated with prejudice when the Justice Department dropped the case.

Authored the carve-out (Section 70523), adapted from his Promoting Domestic Energy Production Act, and secured its insertion into the Senate version of the bill after it was absent from the House. Oil and gas is the largest industry source of his campaign contributions — more than $546,000 in 2019-2024.

Founding member of Executive Branch; top Trump fund-raiser and lobbyist who in Q1 2025 registered 39 new corporate clients including the offshore crypto firm Tether.

The Botanic Tonics founder donated $443,000 to the Republican National Committee around a February 2026 dinner headlined by Vice President JD Vance, then secured a private meeting with Mr. Vance to lobby for natural kratom; he also gave nearly $162,000 to Mr. Kennedy's defunct presidential campaign.

Ohio businessman who leads the J.J. Cafaro Investment Trust, the ultimate owner of Greenwater Services. A longtime Trump donor and a neighbor of Mar-a-Lago, he has given more than $300,000 to Trump-connected committees and $50,000 to a 2016 Trump veterans fund-raiser; Trump has called him "a fantastic man." He pleaded guilty in 2001 to conspiracy to bribe Representative James Traficant.

Founder of James Otis Law Group and the attorney who argued Trump v. United States -- the presidential-immunity case -- before the Supreme Court in April 2024. Nominated as U.S. Solicitor General in November 2024 and confirmed in April 2025.

Listed alongside Jeff Sprecher as an individual donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Oracle's co-founder and chairman, and one of the world's wealthiest people. In 2024 he gave roughly $45 million to a political nonprofit supporting Trump's campaign -- among the cycle's largest single contributions -- through a vehicle not subject to public disclosure. The contribution had not been previously reported, and FEC filings show no funds given by Ellison directly to the Trump campaign or its committees.

Confirmed as Secretary of Education by 51-45 Senate vote on March 3, 2025. WWE co-founder; former Small Business Administration administrator under Trump 1.0; chair of the America First Policy Institute; gave $20 million to MAGA Inc. during the 2024 cycle; co-chaired the 2024 Trump transition team.

As Abbott's defense lawyer, separately urged incoming Trump DOJ officials to overhaul the consumer-protection office running the investigation and to strip its authority to bring criminal cases.

As a senator and later Homeland Security Secretary, urged HHS officials to remove kratom-warning language from the FDA website and endorsed a crackdown on competing synthetic 7-OH products; a financial disclosure showed he held an investment of up to $1 million in Botanic Tonics and had not divested.

Co-owner of Executive Branch via 1789 Capital; head of the Florida-based venture firm that also hired Donald Trump Jr. as a senior executive.

Received a full pardon, wiping his April 11, 2025 sentence of 18 months in federal prison and roughly $4.4 million in restitution for unpaid payroll taxes (more than $7 million withheld from employees and never remitted, plus more than $10 million total tax loss). His clemency petition explicitly cited his mother's Republican fundraising history as evidence the prosecution had been political payback.

Confirmed as Treasury Secretary by 68-29 Senate vote on January 27, 2025. Founder of macro hedge fund Key Square Group and former chief investment officer for George Soros's Soros Fund Management; hosted Trump fundraisers in 2024 totaling roughly $57 million.

Led the UAE delegation to Washington, offered the $1.4 trillion investment pledge to Trump in the Oval Office, and pressed asks on AI chip access and CFIUS fast-tracks — while already secretly holding 49% of World Liberty Financial through Aryam.

Listed as an individual donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Anonymously donated $130 million to the Pentagon to fund U.S. military pay during the shutdown; identified by the New York Times as the unnamed donor Trump praised publicly.

Made the donations jointly with his wife while under a federal fraud conviction, free on appeal, facing a four-year prison term and roughly $676 million in restitution. Received a full presidential pardon from Trump five months after the October 2024 donation batch. Has publicly said the donations were not connected to the pardon.

Of Counsel at James Otis Law Group since August 2023 and member of Trump's appellate legal team. Named White House Staff Secretary at the start of the second Trump administration.

Co-owner of Executive Branch; son of Trump Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and co-founder of World Liberty Financial.

Closed a multi-year criminal investigation that some of its own prosecutors and supervisors believed was chargeable, and pursued only a civil settlement clawing back money Abbott earned through federal child-nutrition programs.

Trump's leadership PAC and the sole Trump-cmte source of legal fees to Blanche Law before inauguration -- 32 payments totaling $9,269,237 between April 2023 and January 2025. Save America's contributors fund the disbursements; the committee has continued paying the firm in 2025 - 2026 after Blanche's confirmation as Deputy Attorney General.

Donated $1 million to MAHA PAC, a committee aligned with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; the sum was about 44 percent of the committee's total fundraising from early 2025 through April 2026.

Reversed a World Cup red-card suspension for the first time since 1962, replacing it with a probationary period, after the U.S. president intervened on behalf of the host nation's team whose cooperation FIFA needs for the 2026 tournament.

Through its Sikorsky subsidiary, which builds the Marine One presidential helicopters under federal contract, the company agreed to fund a new granite helicopter landing pad on the White House South Lawn, at an estimated $5 million to $6 million. Lockheed Martin is among the federal government's largest defense contractors.

Received the $1 million donation from Moroun, adding to its fundraising base from donors who have sought and received White House access and favorable policy actions.

Received $443,000 from Botanic Tonics founder Jerry W. Ross in connection with a New York fund-raising dinner headlined by Vice President JD Vance.

Received about $1.47 billion (roughly $1.1 billion net) from the sale of its California City and Otay Mesa detention centers to the government, while keeping the contracts to operate both facilities for ICE.

The Trump-chaired National Park Foundation subsidiary that received roughly $80 million in federal grants to run the 250th-anniversary events, and was designated the official "primary branding" for government anniversary communications.

Trump's 2020-era candidate committee made 21 disbursements totaling $377,575 to Habba Madaio & Associates between February 2022 and March 2024 -- the smaller of the two Trump-committee revenue streams to Habba's firm.

Listed as a corporate donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

The federal agency that awarded the $1.7 million contract. It bypassed the competitive-bidding process normally required, citing an exemption meant for urgent situations -- the need to install the system in time for events marking the country's 250th birthday -- even though a public filing acknowledged that multiple firms had expressed interest and set no specific installation deadline.

Listed as a sponsor of Freedom 250, the Trump-chaired entity organizing the United States' 250th-anniversary celebrations; no specific sponsorship amount was disclosed.

Listed as a corporate donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Staged a Freedom 250 mixed-martial-arts event on the White House South Lawn timed to Trump's 80th birthday. Its president had asked Trump to reverse a tax-law cap on gambling-loss deductions; the provision remains in effect.

Co-owner of Executive Branch; Florida-based venture firm whose portfolio companies have business pending before federal regulators.

Received the $900,000 conduit donation that federal prosecutors later identified as illegally disguising its true source. The 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee funded Trump's January 20, 2017 inauguration and related events.

Avoided a criminal charge over the contaminated Sturgis plant — including a possible misdemeanor under the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and a false-statements count — and resolved the matter through an undisclosed civil settlement instead.

Its blood-cancer pill Venclexta (about $814 million in gross Medicare spending in 2024) was excluded from price negotiation; the company's CEO called the change a good policy that rewards innovation.

Listed as a donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Listed as a corporate donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Listed as a corporate donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Listed as a corporate donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Listed as a donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Recipient of $9,269,237 from Save America PAC across 32 payments between April 2023 and January 2025. Founded by Todd Blanche in 2022 specifically to represent Trump in the New York hush-money case; Emil Bove was a partner. Both principals subsequently took senior Justice Department roles.

Listed as a sponsor of Freedom 250, the Trump-chaired entity organizing the United States' 250th-anniversary celebrations; no specific sponsorship amount was disclosed.

Listed as a corporate donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Its cancer drugs Opdivo (about $4.7 billion in 2024 Medicare spending) and Yervoy (about $993 million) became ineligible for Medicare price negotiation under the new rules.

Listed as a corporate donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Listed as a sponsor of Freedom 250, the Trump-chaired entity organizing the United States' 250th-anniversary celebrations; no specific sponsorship amount was disclosed.

Listed as a corporate donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Listed as a corporate donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Listed as a sponsor of Freedom 250, the Trump-chaired entity organizing the United States' 250th-anniversary celebrations; no specific sponsorship amount was disclosed.

Accepted the $130 million donation under its general gift acceptance authority to offset service members' salaries and benefits during the federal shutdown.

The health department, which oversees the FDA, removed links to kratom enforcement actions from the agency's website by the end of 2025 after pressure from Mr. Mullin.

Stands to benefit from any blockage or delay of the Gordie Howe Bridge, which would otherwise compete for toll revenues currently flowing exclusively to the Ambassador Bridge it owns.

Recipient of $13,847,315 across four Trump-affiliated committees between 2019 and January 2025. Founded by Harmeet Dhillon and built into a leading conservative election-law and First Amendment practice; David Warrington was also a partner. Both principals took senior administration roles -- Warrington as White House Counsel, Dhillon as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.

Trump's 2024 presidential principal campaign committee (Never Surrender, Inc., FEC ID C00828541) made 42 disbursements totaling $7,262,161 to Dhillon Law Group between June 2023 and January 2025 -- the largest single-committee revenue stream to any of the four firms covered by this set of actions.

The foundation building Trump's presidential library in Miami received the $50 million donation. It is raising hundreds of millions of dollars for the project, with other reported funds coming from lawsuit settlements paid by media and technology companies including ABC News, Paramount, X, and Meta.

Private Washington membership club; profits from $500k seats sold to executives and donors seeking proximity to the Trump administration. Re-creates the role previously served by the lobby of the Trump International Hotel in Washington.

Listed as a sponsor of Freedom 250, the Trump-chaired entity organizing the United States' 250th-anniversary celebrations; no specific sponsorship amount was disclosed.

Listed as a sponsor of Freedom 250, the Trump-chaired entity organizing the United States' 250th-anniversary celebrations; no specific sponsorship amount was disclosed.

Approved two T-Mobile network expansion deals in July 2025, following T-Mobile's termination of its DEI programs under Trump administration pressure.

Argentine sports-marketing firm whose 2023 conviction in the soccer-bribery scheme was vacated with prejudice when the Justice Department dropped the case.

The larger private-prison operator; under Trump agreed to supply roughly 32,000 ICE detention beds and won new federal contracts, including a Newark facility valued at about $1 billion, while its shares were among the president's disclosed holdings.

Listed as a corporate donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

The Ohio water-treatment firm awarded the $1.7 million no-bid contract to install an ozone "nano bubble" purification system in the Reflecting Pool. Founded in 2019, it had received only one other federal contract. Federal records show its ultimate owner is the J.J. Cafaro Investment Trust.

Recipient of $8,916,686 in legal fees from Save America PAC and MAGA PAC combined between February 2022 and January 2025. The firm represented Trump in the E. Jean Carroll civil cases and other personal litigation; founding partner Alina Habba was named Counselor to the President at the start of the second administration.

Listed as a corporate donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Listed as a corporate donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Recipient of $2,021,192 from Save America PAC across 14 payments between November 2023 and January 2025. Founded in 2015 by D. John Sauer; Will Scharf joined as Of Counsel in August 2023. Both principals subsequently took senior administration roles.

Listed as a sponsor of Freedom 250, the Trump-chaired entity organizing the United States' 250th-anniversary celebrations; no specific sponsorship amount was disclosed.

Listed as a sponsor of Freedom 250, the Trump-chaired entity organizing the United States' 250th-anniversary celebrations; no specific sponsorship amount was disclosed.

Its multiple-myeloma treatment Darzalex (about $5.6 billion in gross Medicare spending in 2024) was exempted entirely from price negotiation by the multi-orphan provision.

Received $1 million from Botanic Tonics, nearly half of all the money it raised over the period; the committee is associated with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again movement.

Super PAC that was the principal outside-money vehicle backing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s 2024 presidential campaign. Received $750,000 from Milton on September 18, 2024, after Kennedy had dropped out and endorsed Trump.

Listed as a sponsor of Freedom 250, the Trump-chaired entity organizing the United States' 250th-anniversary celebrations; no specific sponsorship amount was disclosed.

Its drug Keytruda ($17.9 billion in 2024 U.S. sales) had its Medicare price negotiation delayed at least a year, from 2026 to 2027, by the orphan-to-broader clock-reset provision; Merck also lobbied lawmakers on the provisions.

Listed as a corporate donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Listed as a corporate donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Spent $30.3 million in independent expenditures supporting Trump's 2016 campaign — more than any other outside group — and endorsed him again in 2024.

Listed as a corporate donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Listed as a sponsor of Freedom 250, the Trump-chaired entity organizing the United States' 250th-anniversary celebrations; no specific sponsorship amount was disclosed.

Listed as a sponsor of Freedom 250, the Trump-chaired entity organizing the United States' 250th-anniversary celebrations; no specific sponsorship amount was disclosed.

Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery was cleared at the federal level. Paramount had earlier paid $16 million to Trump's presidential library to settle a CBS 60 Minutes lawsuit.

Listed as a sponsor of Freedom 250, the Trump-chaired entity organizing the United States' 250th-anniversary celebrations; no specific sponsorship amount was disclosed.

Listed as a sponsor of Freedom 250, the Trump-chaired entity organizing the United States' 250th-anniversary celebrations; no specific sponsorship amount was disclosed.

Listed as a corporate donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Listed as a corporate donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Listed as a sponsor of Freedom 250, the Trump-chaired entity organizing the United States' 250th-anniversary celebrations; no specific sponsorship amount was disclosed.

Listed as a sponsor of Freedom 250, the Trump-chaired entity organizing the United States' 250th-anniversary celebrations; no specific sponsorship amount was disclosed.

Listed as a sponsor of Freedom 250, the Trump-chaired entity organizing the United States' 250th-anniversary celebrations; no specific sponsorship amount was disclosed.

Donated $50 million to the Trump presidential library foundation, one of the largest publicly disclosed gifts to the fund, intended to support a library focus on the U.S.-Japan relationship. The company pledged in 2024 to invest $100 billion in the United States during Trump's term, is a major investor in OpenAI, and lobbies on AI-related issues according to recent filings.

Listed as a corporate donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Listed as a donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Listed as a sponsor of Freedom 250, the Trump-chaired entity organizing the United States' 250th-anniversary celebrations; no specific sponsorship amount was disclosed.

Trump 2024 joint fundraising committee; received more than $1.8 million from Milton and his wife, including a single $920,000 contribution on October 10, 2024.

Collected lease payments from FIFA for Trump Tower office space, a stream of revenue to the president's family business during his term.

The federal department that purchased the two detention facilities from CoreCivic for about $1.47 billion, acquiring the real estate while leaving CoreCivic to keep operating both under its existing ICE management contracts.

The Department of Homeland Security agency that detains immigrants and contracts much of that detention to private operators; as the administration scaled up enforcement, it awarded and expanded detention contracts with GEO Group and CoreCivic, including the roughly $1 billion Newark facility and the $180-million-a-year Dilley, Texas center.

Listed as a corporate donor pledging a contribution to Trump's White House ballroom project; no specific dollar amount disclosed.

Listed as a sponsor of Freedom 250, the Trump-chaired entity organizing the United States' 250th-anniversary celebrations; no specific sponsorship amount was disclosed.

Listed as a sponsor of Freedom 250, the Trump-chaired entity organizing the United States' 250th-anniversary celebrations; no specific sponsorship amount was disclosed.

The parent company of CNN, HBO, and the Warner Bros. studios; the federal clearance removed the U.S. antitrust obstacle to its acquisition by Paramount Skydance.