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Trump dropped their cases. They gave $210 million to his super PACs.
Public Citizen found the companies and executives spared gave or pledged $210.5 million to Trump-aligned super PACs.
Washington. By Swamp Tracker
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- Byron Donalds just took $200,000 from billionaire Thomas Peterffy.
- Jared Kushner allegedly got nearly $2 billion from foreign leaders while in the White House.
- GOP Sen. Darline Graham's super PAC just took $3 million from a Trump-aligned dark money group.
- Byron Donalds claimed his wife "doesn't have business involvement" with Florida charters.
- Trump's oil and gas stocks are now worth up to $81 million after surging during his Iran war.
- GOP Sen. Roger Marshall allegedly billed taxpayers $23,000 for trips to go on Fox News.
- NextEra just made nearly $4.8 billion in profit in three months, almost double last year.
- Trump was just sued for allegedly profiting off over $2 billion in UAE-linked crypto deals.
- Trump's ICE skipped bidding and gave Palantir a visa-vetting contract with no price disclosed.
- Byron Donalds' PAC has raked in over $25 million this month alone.
- GOP Senate nominee Mike Rogers spent over $90,000 in campaign cash on private jets in a month.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's bank account jumped from under $50,000 to over $1 million.
- Florida AG James Uthmeier's committee took $250,000 from an Alligator Alcatraz contractor.
- Texas AG Ken Paxton's "blind" trust put $600,000 into a convicted fraudster's business.
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Swamp Tracker reports on corruption and hypocrisy in American politics. We match each donation to what the donor got back and link the record behind it.
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Who paid, and what came back
Money trails from our reporting, one published receipt per line.
Elon Musk$500,000
Gov. Greg AbbottTexas, campaign
$1.6Bin tax breaks for Musk's chip plant, about 3 months laterRead the receipt
A banker's daughterplus $2.5M pledged to the ballroom$3.5M
Donald Trumpsuper PAC and ballroom
Pardonfor her father, charged in a bribery schemeRead the receipt
The Winklevoss twins$5M
Donald Trumpballroom
$5Mpenalty against their crypto firm that Trump is now trying to cancelRead the receipt
Larry Ellison's trust$1M
Sen. Darline Grahamsuper PAC backing her
Data centersshe now says construction must accelerate to beat ChinaRead the receipt
Swamp Tracker ledgerEvery line links to the receipt and its source
Receipts
The latest receipts
Recent posts as we published them, each next to a crop of the document behind it. Click a crop to open the source.
Byron Donalds just took $200,000 from billionaire Thomas Peterffy.
Two days earlier, Peterffy covered over $19,000 in catering for his PAC.
Trump was just sued for allegedly profiting off over $2 billion in UAE-linked crypto deals.
A firm backed by the UAE's spy chief bought 49% of his family's crypto company days before he took office.
Trump's ICE skipped bidding and gave Palantir a visa-vetting contract with no price disclosed.
Palantir gave millions to Trump's ballroom.
Byron Donalds' PAC has raked in over $25 million this month alone.
Over $15 million of it came in the last 10 days.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's bank account jumped from under $50,000 to over $1 million.
His filing doesn't explain where the money came from.
Lutnick's Commerce Dept will give up to $175M to a fusion startup backed by Kushner's brother.
The government's stake is priced off a funding round his firm led.
GOP Sen. Jon Husted has taken over $837,000 from AIPAC.
Ohio voters decide his Senate seat in under two weeks.
Billionaire Larry Ellison just gave $1 million to the super PAC backing GOP Sen. Darline Graham.
She has outspent her opponent by about $3 million in recent weeks.
Byron Donalds just received another $5 million from billionaire Ken Griffin.
Griffin has now given his PAC $15 million.
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Most of the decisions in our receipts are made in these rooms. Contracts and policy come out of the White House, pardons out of the Oval Office, and votes out of the Capitol.
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Index to our beats
On every beat we ask who paid, and whether the people in charge follow their own rules.
- Campaign finance and super PACs50 receipts
- Political hypocrisy11 receipts
- Trump-world self-dealing26 receipts
- Conflicts of interest in federal agencies16 receipts
- Energy, utilities, and data centers23 receipts
- Florida21 receipts
- Texas9 receipts
- Maryland3 receipts
- Virginia9 receipts
- Crypto and the Trump meme coin8 receipts
- Pardons and clemency5 receipts
- ICE detention contractors4 receipts
- Elon Musk's political spending5 receipts
- Trump ballroom donors6 receipts
- Politicians index40 people
- Explainers7 guides
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- The payoff
The vote, pardon, contract, waiver, or tax break that came after.
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