1. Who chooses to spend $800,000+ to help Trump become the next president? We got a peak this week when a new joint fundraising committee, Trump 47, filed its first FEC report The filing revealed 20 people have donated $800,000 or more Follow along for the gory details 🧵
2. Jose "Pepe" Fanjul ($814,600) ✅ Controls sugar empire, an industry that receives billions in annual subsidies from the US gov't ✅ In 2022, Dominican Republic subsidiary banned from importing goods to the US after CBP found evidence of "the use of forced labor" ✅ Employed white nationalist as an "executive assistant"
3. Steve Wynn ($806,300) ✅ Billionaire casino mogul ✅ Forced to resign following @WSJ report that, for decades, he pressured employees into performing sex acts ✅ Sued by Justice Dept in 2022 for lobbying Trump on behalf of the Chinese gov't without registering as a foreign agent
4. Geoffrey Palmer ($814,600) ✅ Real estate tycoon ✅ Calls efforts to increase affordable housing "immoral" and "not American.” ✅ Sued LA to stop eviction moratorium at height of pandemic ✅ Accused in class-action lawsuit of illegally withholding security deposits (settled for 12.5 million)
@JuddLegum @WSJ Billionaire casino mogul who apparently can't keep his hands to himself and has been accused of pressuring employees into performing sex acts for decades. 🙄
@JuddLegum @WSJ Mr. Wynn seems to have lost when it comes to plastic surgery.