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Wednesday, April 17, 2024

On Monday, the Trump 47 committee filed its first report with the FEC. The filing revealed 20 people have donated $800,000 or more. Popular Information profiled nine of the most notable donors.

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P Diddy in there? Oh wait.

#1 | Posted by fishpaw at 2024-04-17 01:00 PM | Reply

It's Who's Who list of sexual misconduct claims, labor violations, tax cheats, and dudes who got huge Trump tax breaks.

#2 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-04-17 01:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Woody and Suzanne Johnson

Oh god the picture. That's too funny.

#3 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-04-17 01:30 PM | Reply

Wow, the first person on the list:

Jose "Pepe" Fanjul: $814,600

Jose Fanjul and his family own a sugar harvesting and refining empire, including a majority stake in Domino Sugar. Since the 1980s, the sugar industry has enjoyed billions of dollars in annual subsidies from the federal government, which guarantees high prices for domestic sugar. This makes sugar farming much more profitable than other kinds of farming and forces American consumers to spend twice as much for sugar compared to other countries. Fanjul is a prolific donor to Republican causes to preserve these subsidies.

In November 2022, a subsidiary owned by the Fanjul brothers in the Dominican Republic, Central Roma, was banned from importing sugar after the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) found evidence of "the use of forced labor in its operations." In its investigation of Central Roma, the CBP found indications that the company engages in "abuse of vulnerability, isolation, withholding of wages, abusive working and living conditions, and excessive overtime."

Jose Fanjul employed Chloe Hardin Black, "a long-time white nationalist and the wife of a notorious former Klan leader," as an "executive assistant." Black was married to "Don Black, a former Alabama Klan chieftain who is famous among white supremacists for his creation of Stormfront, the largest white supremacist Web forum in the world." Before that, she was married to neo-Nazi and former KKK grand wizard David Duke.

#4 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2024-04-17 01:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Some pretty oily people. It appears they know that $814,000 buys the attention of a fat orange criminal insurrectionist who wears his suits two sizes too big. They also know that the market positions they keep and the tax breaks received make that $814k a sound investment...

#5 | Posted by catdog at 2024-04-17 02:12 PM | Reply

Trump's legal bills will eat that up pretty quick. But it's not going to help him get elected.

#6 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-04-17 02:12 PM | Reply

Jose "Pepe" Fanjul: $814,600
Jose Fanjul and his family own a sugar harvesting and refining empire, including a majority stake in Domino Sugar. Since the 1980s, the sugar industry has enjoyed billions of dollars in annual subsidies from the federal government, which guarantees high prices for domestic sugar. This makes sugar farming much more profitable than other kinds of farming and forces American consumers to spend twice as much for sugar compared to other countries. Fanjul is a prolific donor to Republican causes to preserve these subsidies.

Does anyone know if generic sugar is made by this company?? Looks like it's time to boycott C & H cane sugar.

#7 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-04-17 02:21 PM | Reply

Does anyone know if generic sugar is made by this company?? Looks like it's time to boycott C & H cane sugar.

#7 | POSTED BY LAURAMOHR

I doubt if it matters. The other sugar producers are probably just as nefarious. You can't be a consumer in America without supporting an ----- somewhere. And, with a few exceptions, it's gotten practically impossible to find a truly benevolent billionaire.

#8 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-04-17 03:09 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

I doubt if it matters. The other sugar producers are probably just as nefarious. You can't be a consumer in America without supporting an ----- somewhere. And, with a few exceptions, it's gotten practically impossible to find a truly benevolent billionaire.

#8 | POSTED BY WHATSLEFT AT 2024-04-17 03:09 PM | REPLY

Gee thanks. I figured as much. It's sad really. Thanks for the info. I appreciate it.

#9 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-04-17 04:08 PM | Reply

Fat George Conway got grifted for about a million dollars by Joe Biden

#10 | Posted by THEBULL at 2024-04-17 04:11 PM | Reply

Your mom got grifted by a bull mastiff.

#11 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-04-17 11:44 PM | Reply

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