This doesn’t seem possible, but based on an exclusive report by the Washington Post, we now know the Trump White House ballroom is even more corrupted than we thought.
Because the contract specifying the handling of donations was just published, and it has modifications and revisions that obfuscate virtually all of the conflicts of interest present between the donors and the government.
For example, all donors are granted anonymity by request.
Then, donations over $25,000 are only investigated for conflicts of interest if the donor has direct business with the National Parks Service or the Department of the Interior. So hypothetically, if Palantir wanted to donate $10 million to the ballroom while they have a pending defense contract awaiting approval, this wouldn’t even trigger a review.
On top of that, only $80 million in donations is accounted for, and we don’t know the amount any public donors donated other than the ones who admitted/bragged about it in public.
Meaning there’s at least $250 million in donations from an unknown number of anonymous donors, and any of those donors could be waiting for merger approvals or federal contracts, and no one would know unless Trump volunteered the information, or unless, say, a future Congress had the power to issue subpoenas and force the courts to force the White House to disclose the information voters deserve.
Seems like this should all be illegal? Sure does.
Because it’s essentially a clone of the Teapot Dome scandal. Watch the video to see how that ended.