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A Trump mega-donor who hired Trump fundraisers to lobby the Trump Administration got the biggest payout from the Trump Paycheck Protection Program

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, the former Trump fundraisers that Ashford hired, both attempted to influence Treasury Department officials on the company's behalf. The secretary of that agency, Steven Mnuchin, has not only been the chief White House negotiator on the bailout bills, he was also the ringmaster of Trump's fundraising effort in 2016 and has longstanding relationships with many of the donors still active in Trump's re-election effort.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Bennett's companies continued to pay millions of dollars in dividends to preferred shareholders, including himself and his father, through March. The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic on March 11, just as U.S. states witnessed a fresh wave of new cases and millions of Americans began filing for unemployment.

Ride-sharing and scooter companies, laundromats, gyms, high-end pharmaceutical companies — all found themselves suddenly and urgently in need of a line into the Trump administration. And they secured it through a slew of top fundraisers, campaign operatives, and former Trump aides offering their services as guides to Washington during the coronavirus pandemic — for a price, of course.

Ballard and Miller charge upwards of $300,000 to $400,000 a year for the access and influence they can provide. "They're printing money," said one veteran Republican lobbyist.Ballard and Miller are hardly known outside the Beltway, but they both boast deep ties to the ever-shifting whirlwind of characters that blew into Washington DC with Trump's shocking electoral victory.

That was good news for the likes of Getaround Inc, the 10-year-old ride-sharing company out of San Francisco that had signed up Ballard, Trump's Florida campaign chairman, to lobby on its behalf. "It gives the appearance of corruption and cronyism," said Canter, who now serves as chief ethics counsel for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a DC watchdog group.

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Henry, I need to pay $ to read this article? You’re kidding me, right? Get lost.

Fake news

hblodget Surely it’s just a coincidence 😂😂😂

hblodget Who was the bank? Let me guess.....

Who is surprised? It happens all the time. In Obama bailouts most of money went to leftist donors pushing solar panels. They all went bankrupt shortly after without paying money back. This is why you can't trust government. At least with private companies you can fire them.

If this is true, it's no surprise to most of us. No surprise at all.

Hey media fraud, stop fooling my democrat friends.

Lmao

Surprising - absolutely no one

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