White House ballroom donors 'should be losing sleep' as 'massive' reckoning looms: expert
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Ex-Trump official Miles Taylor issued a stark warning to those who donated to President Donald Trump's White House ballroom project on Friday, arguing that they and their affiliates “should be losing sleep” over what he cautioned would be a “massive” legal reckoning just on the horizon.
Taylor, who previously served as chief of staff in the Homeland Security Department under Trump, flagged the bombshell report from Public Citizen this week that found more than half of the known donors to the ballroom project had received government contracts in the last six months totaling more than $50 billion.
“The White House calls this a ‘fake’ conflict of interest. But you can almost hear the panic under their voices,” Taylor wrote in an analysis published on his Substack Friday. “It’s not fake. It’s so brazen it should be illegal, and in many cases, future federal prosecutors might discover that it was.”
Last year, it was revealed that the Trump administration had withheld the identities of several ballroom donors despite its pledge to provide full transparency. The Trump administration also went back on its promise that the project would be entirely funded by private donors after a $1 billion ask for ballroom “security” was slipped into a GOP budget proposal.
And now, after further reporting detailed the extent to which ballroom donors have benefited from the Trump administration, Taylor predicted a “huge reckoning” was coming for those involved, and soon.
“Whatever shadow deals might’ve been done to make all of this happen, I can promise they won’t stay secret forever. Although the administration negotiated a covert funding agreement to let donors hide themselves, they were sloppy and stupid,” Taylor wrote.
“Public Citizen pried it loose through a simple FOIA lawsuit, and more disclosures will surely follow. Administrations come to an end. Statutes of limitations do not run out as fast as a news cycle.”
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Donate $400 million for one of Trump's vanity projects, say nothing as he literally demolishes a large part of the White House without authorization, and reap billions in government contracts in return.
Good work if you can get it, I suppose.
And Republicans in Congress want to give him a billion dollars more for the appalling monument to himself.
Most corrupt president and administration ever.
The corruption is so blatantly apparent it's no wondier it can't be hidden. I also believe that the stock market was manipulated to allow inside traders to profit grandly.
That line item was stripped from the Senate funding reconciliation last week.
Oh, good. With so many things to keep up with I guess I missed that. I've also been consuming less news lately, as it's so damn depressing.
Still, that doesn't change the fact that it was tried.
I think the statement as written is still accurate. There are still Republicans in Congress who want to give him a billion dollars more for the appalling monument to himself, regardless of whether it happens or not. It’s a disgusting reality of our politics.
I read less articles, but I still see the headlines and read enough. Last week was stripping this money and the 6 Senate Republicans that tanked Trump's voting bill.
It also doesn't mean he won't try another way.
The populist rot runs deep in the GoP.
yea, but how about all of that evidence he supplied on Meet the Press yesterday of voter fraud and stolen elections....
I'm going to enjoy watching his kids repeatedly pick up the tab when daddy checks out ...