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Wired Magazine: bold and blatant corruption in plain sight [1]
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Date: 2025-03-04
Wired magazine is just out with this new story: “Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.” Link: People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Invitees were asked to RSVP to Meredith O’Rourke, who served as national finance director and senior advisor at Donald J. Trump for President 2024, a campaign committee, and the owner of The O’Rourke Group, which O’Rourke describes on her LinkedIn page as a “Republican political fundraiser.” Invitees were also directed to email Abby Mathis, the finance coordinator at MAGA Inc. Mathis was previously a staff assistant for senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama—a former Auburn University football coach—and also served as an intern at the White House office of the staff secretary, according to LegiStorm, a research organization that posts information on politicians and their staffers.
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“It’s everyone else who missed the boat,” a Trumpworld source with knowledge of the meetings says, referring to latecomers to the Trump agenda. The source pointed specifically to the tech sector, where executives have scrambled to show fealty to the new administration. While X owner Elon Musk notably spent at least $260 million to elect Trump, other tech companies and executives collectively donated millions to Trump’s inauguration fund: Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos, Meta, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Uber, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman all donated $1,000,000 each. The $5 million one-on-one meetings have become a “hot ticket” in the business community, says a source familiar with them.
Get on board all you CEO’s, the good ship King Donald the First is setting sail and you better have a ticket or he is going to drown you. Question: will he share any of this with Emperor Putin or his co-regent Musk? Nah, they can run their own grift.
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