Former President Donald Trump may have lost the support of Slat CEO Steve Schwarzman but a super PAC that will support Trump’s latest run for the White House has quietly amassed a small group of large donors who could be key to funding their efforts. to boost his 2024 campaign.
Make America Great Again Inc., a super PAC run by former Trump aides and allies, recently raised more than $40 million, mostly from a large donation from Trump’s PAC, Save America, according to Federal Election Commission filings. .
However, the latest reveal, which shows fundraising for the super PAC from October 20 to November 28, also lists nine other individual donations totaling more than $900,000. A separate FEC filing showing donations from early October lists seven donations from six business leaders and a consortium totaling more than $3 million in support to MAGA Inc. Wealthy businessman Timothy Mellon contributed $1.5 million to the super PAC on October 5, according to the Profile.
This small group of large donors came to support the super PAC just before other influential financiers decided they would not support Trump’s 2024 presidential candidacy. sponsors go away from helping the Trump campaign include Schwarzman, Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, New York businessman Andy Sabin and billionaire Ronald Lauder.
Trump, who has twice been impeached by Congress and is currently under investigation by the FBI for his handling of classified documents, declare his candidacy on Nov. 15. The super PAC’s latest FEC reveal shows they have more than $54 million on hand. A PAC spokesperson did not return a request for comment.
The most recent large personal donation, in addition to $40 million from Save America in November, was a $500,000 donation from BPH Properties, an Alabama-based business run by BPH Properties. real estate agent Luther S. Pate, IV. Pate, also known as Stan Pate, did not respond to a request for comment. State business records list Pate as president of BPH Properties.
Pate published photos of Trump and himself on the Alabama businessman’s Facebook page just days before the midterm elections in November. Pate wrote in a November 5 post that he was with him. Trump at his private club Mar-a-Lago and said that the highlights of the discussion were “the midterm elections coming up Tuesday, voter fraud, stolen elections. , 2024, etc!”
The donation from BPH Properties was received by the pro-Trump PAC on November 9, just four days after Pate released the photos, according to FEC filings.
FEC records show that Pate has also donated to at least one other pro-Trump PAC in previous elections. Pate hasn’t signed up for a six-figure donation over the past decade to a federal campaign like the one his company recently gave to the new super PAC supporting the former president.
During Trump’s first run for the White House in 2016, Pate funded the anti-Trump super PAC We The People Foundation. The PAC, according to FEC filings, ended up spending more than $160,000 trying to defeat Trump during his initial successful campaign.
An archived website titled Anybody But Trump, sponsored by We The People Foundation, says “America is great! Trump is disgusting.” PAC also pays for full-page anti-Trump newspaper ads in Mexico and South Korea, according to NBC News.
The latest FEC filing shows that Splitco Holdings LLC contributed $100,000 to MAGA Inc. at the end of October. The donation has an address listed that matches that of Houston-based Fertitta Entertainment, the conglomerate run by businessman Tilman Fertitta. Businessmen own NBA franchise Houston Rockets and hotel giant Landry’s.
Although the Texas composer’s database doesn’t have any records of a business named “Splitco Holdings,” they do have a record of a business with the same address and almost identical name called. is “CH Splitco Holdings”. The OpenCorporates database lists CH Splitco Holdings’ managing member as CHLN Inc., a business run by Fertitta, according to other business records.
According to FEC filings, Fertitta was a major donor to the Republican Party for many years. He gave three separate checks for $35,000 between 2018 and 2020 to Trump Victory, a joint fundraising committee supporting the Republican National Committee and Trump’s failed reelection, according to the filing. profile. The Rockets owner did not return a request for comment.
Fertitta went to a 2020 briefing at the White House to meet with Trump and discuss Paycheck Protection Program loans initiated during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. During the briefing, Trump called Fertitta “great guy, great family, great everything.” Fertitta told Trump and administration officials at the meeting that his company has return PPP because he doesn’t want to be seen as a “small business billionaire”.
Murray Goodman, a real estate executive and founder of the Goodman Company, gave $10,000 to the PAC in late October, according to FEC filings. Goodman previously donated more than $200,000 to Trump Victory. His daughter’s wedding report takes place at Mar-a-Lago.
Carolina Olsson, an administrator for Goodman Company, told CNBC that the donation is intended to help fund MAGA Inc.’s campaign. -Chicken.
PAC has ended spending at least $681,000 backing Walker in the general election and nothing during the run involving Warnock defeat Republican candidate.
Anthony Lomangino, a recycling tycoon, donated $100,000 to super PACs on Nov. 4. Politico report in 2018, Lomangino was a member of Mar-a-Lago, who gave $150,000 to a fund intended to protect Trump aides and allies trapped in the former special counsel’s Russia investigation Robert Mueller.
Lomangino did not return a request for comment.
