Dark Money Is Flowing Into Trump’s Legacy Projects
Funneling millions to the Trump administration through undisclosed donations, a slew of corporations and lobbyists are potentially violating disclosure laws to help bankroll the president’s ballroom and other pet projects.
At least 35 corporations have helped bankroll Donald Trump’s pet projects, including his White House State Ballroom. (Aaron Schwartz / CNP / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Palantir, Meta, Paramount Skydance, and more than two dozen other corporations might have broken the law when they funneled millions to the Trump administration through undisclosed donations to the revamped White House ballroom, Donald Trump’s future presidential library, and other Trumpworld legacy projects, according to a new legal complaint.
“The scale of these potential violations is unprecedented,” warned the nonpartisan watchdog Campaign Legal Center in its complaint to the US Attorney for DC, alleging that at least thirty-five firms helped bankroll President Trump’s pet projects without properly disclosing such lobbying.
Those legacy projects are Trump’s $400 million White House State Ballroom project, the Freedom 250 group leading the president’s 250th United States birthday celebrations, the renamed Trump Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the future Trump Presidential Library.
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