Saturday, November 01, 2025

Not Just Epstein Files: Some Ballroom Donors IDs Secret

Trump's aides have promised transparency about the funding of a new ballroom, but the White House withheld the identities of several donors to the project, including some with business before the administration, The New York Times found.

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 10:30 AM | 11 COMMENTS | permalink

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The White House is allowing anonymous donors to fund Trump's tacky ballroom. Transparency is the backbone of democracy. Why does Trump want to let funders of a public project hide from the public?

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-- Public Citizen (@publiccitizen.bsky.social) Oct 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM

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This, in a law disrespecting, self-dealing misadministration presided over by a twice impeached, cancer charity ripper-offing, thirty-four times convicted felon swaddled in a form of presidential immunity invented just year by a predictably compliant radical Republican SCOTUS majority?

Shockah.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-11-01 07:47 AM

Meet the grifty fundraiser behind Trump's gaudy ballroom
www.dailykos.com

This monument to Trump's fragile ego and mental deterioration as well as his boundless tackiness and venality functions, as I've said from the get-go, as an undisguised combination graft magnet and money laundry.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-11-01 07:59 AM

It would be interesting to see how much the total donations exceed the actual construction cost. $2 Billion? $5 Billion?

Of course we will never know.

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-01 04:17 PM

"Inconceivable!" - 1Nutjob

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-01 04:54 PM

Well, someone has to pay for the russian wire taps and spyware.

#5 | Posted by bat4255 at 2025-11-01 06:04 PM

Well, someone has to pay for the russian wire taps and spyware.

Qatar already did, but that was for the flying ballroom.

#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-01 06:17 PM

This story, like with anything factual about Trump, will be usurped by right-wing media feeding their fools with social minutiae focused on the "illegals"

#7 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-11-02 02:27 AM

Blackmail is a useful tool for expecting donations. Although "Randy" Andy, who has signaled that he is willing to blow the lid off the Epstein investigation to the House committee rather than wait for a subpoena, has probably already cancelled his check to the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom.

#8 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-11-02 03:21 AM

Emoluments are no longer a thing?

Corruption is no longer illegal?

What happened?

Why is Trump exempt from all laws and even standards of conduct?

This country is lost.

#9 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-11-02 08:28 AM

"Emoluments are no longer a thing?"

According to the Lyin King:

When you are the King, err, "President" your authority is total and you can do anything you what.

It clearly sez so in 2 Corinthians, Article Two.

#10 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-11-02 11:25 AM

I'm quite sure his throne will be made from whatever gold is left in Ft. Knox. He's building the structure to hold his coronation in, bannered trumpets and all!

#11 | Posted by dutch46 at 2025-11-02 03:00 PM

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