Relationships
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| Subject | Relationship | Object | Dates | Confidence | Establishes / does not establish | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donald J. Trump | benefits from | The Trump Organization | 2025-01-20 | high | The 2025 OGE disclosure reports income to Trump from Trump Organization ventures, including clubs and licensing. Does not establish: That any specific revenue stream resulted from official action. | U.S. Office of Government Ethics The Wall Street Journal |
| Donald J. Trump | owns | Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT) | — | medium | A 53% ownership stake held in a trust controlled by Donald Trump Jr., per PBS/AP reporting of company records. Does not establish: Day-to-day control of the company by the president. | PBS NewsHour / Associated Press |
| Donald Trump Jr. | family of | Donald J. Trump | — | medium | Eldest son; trustee of the trust holding the TMTG stake. Does not establish: Any role in the trades documented elsewhere in this ledger. | PBS NewsHour / Associated Press |
| Eric Trump | family of | Donald J. Trump | — | medium | Son of the president; Trump Organization executive who attended the Vietnam groundbreaking. Does not establish: That he directed any government action. | Reuters |
| Donald J. Trump | benefits from | World Liberty Financial | 2025-01-01 | high | Almost $800 million in reported 2025 receipts to Trump companies from the venture, per Reuters' review of the disclosure. Does not establish: That crypto policy actions were taken to benefit the venture. | Reuters U.S. Office of Government Ethics |
| Zach Witkoff | business partner of | Donald J. Trump | 2024-09-01 | medium | Co-founded World Liberty Financial with Trump's sons; Trump is listed as co-founder emeritus, per reporting. Does not establish: The internal ownership split of the venture. | Reuters |
| Donald J. Trump | benefits from | CIC Digital LLC | 2025-01-01 | high | $636 million in reported 2025 earnings from CIC Digital LLC listed on the disclosure, per ABC News. Does not establish: Exact earnings; the figure reconstructs range-based disclosure. | ABC News U.S. Office of Government Ethics |
| CIC Digital LLC | affiliate of | The Trump Organization | — | medium | Described in reporting as a cryptocurrency firm affiliated with the Trump Organization. Does not establish: The precise corporate relationship, which is not detailed in reviewed sources. | ABC News |
| Binance | contracted with | World Liberty Financial | — | medium | A reported business relationship including a $2 billion investment into Binance denominated in World Liberty's USD1 stablecoin, per WSJ. Does not establish: The relationship's terms. Changpeng Zhao denies any business relationship with the Trumps; the dispute is recorded on the related claim. | The Wall Street Journal |
| The Trump Organization | contracted with | Qatari Diar | 2025-04-30 | high | A Qatar golf-resort licensing deal involving the sovereign-wealth-backed firm, per NYT, AP, and CNN. Does not establish: The deal's fee terms or any link to US policy toward Qatar. | The New York Times Associated Press CNN |
| Qatar Investment Authority | owns | Qatari Diar | — | medium | Qatari Diar is described in reporting as the real-estate arm of Qatar's sovereign wealth fund. Does not establish: The precise ownership structure. | CNN The New York Times |
| The Trump Organization | contracted with | DAMAC Properties | — | high | Management and licensing fees of roughly $12.5 million paid in 2025 for Dubai and Abu Dhabi projects, per The National's review of the disclosure. Does not establish: Any link between the fees and US policy toward the UAE. | The National U.S. Office of Government Ethics |
| The Trump Organization | contracted with | Dar Global | — | medium | Licensing partnerships on Gulf projects including Saudi Arabia and Oman, within the $38 million of 2025 Gulf fees reported by WSJ. Does not establish: Per-project fee splits inside the disclosure's ranges. | The Wall Street Journal |
| The Trump Organization | contracted with | Hung Yen Hospitality Services | 2024-09-01 | high | Partnership on the $1.5 billion Hung Yen project approved by Vietnam in May 2025, per Reuters. Does not establish: Total fees over the project's life. | Reuters Reuters |
| State of Qatar (royal family / Ministry of Defense) | donated to | U.S. Department of Defense | 2025-05-21 | high | The gift of a Boeing 747-8, valued around $400 million, accepted by the Pentagon on May 21, 2025. Does not establish: That the gift violates the Foreign Emoluments Clause — a legally unsettled question — or any policy concession in return. | Reuters U.S. Congress (congress.gov) |
| Meta Platforms | settled with | Donald J. Trump | 2025-01-29 | medium | A $25 million settlement of the account-suspension lawsuit; $22 million to the library fund per reporting. Does not establish: The merits of the underlying suit or any regulatory motive. | NPR |
| X Corp. | settled with | Donald J. Trump | 2025-02-12 | high | A settlement in the range of $10 million of the suspension lawsuit, per NYT. Does not establish: The merits of the underlying suit or any regulatory motive. | The New York Times NPR |
| Paramount Global | settled with | Donald J. Trump | 2025-07-02 | medium | A $16 million settlement of the '60 Minutes' editing lawsuit, per AP. Does not establish: The merits of the underlying suit or any regulatory motive. | Associated Press |
| ABC News (Disney) | settled with | Donald J. Trump | 2024-12-01 | medium | A $15 million defamation settlement (December 2024) directed to the library fund, per the congressional oversight record. Does not establish: The merits of the underlying suit. | Office of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (warren.senate.gov) |
| Donald J. Trump | benefits from | Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Fund | 2024-12-01 | high | Media-settlement proceeds were directed to his future presidential library fund, per settlement reporting and oversight letters. Does not establish: Personal use of fund assets; the senators' accounting questions are unresolved. | Office of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (warren.senate.gov) NPR |
| Donald J. Trump | granted clemency to | Trevor Milton | 2025-03-27 | high | Full pardon signed March 27, 2025, per the DOJ warrant. Does not establish: That documented donations caused the pardon. | U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Pardon Attorney |
| Donald J. Trump | granted clemency to | Paul Walczak | 2025-04-23 | high | Full pardon signed April 23, 2025, per the DOJ warrant. Does not establish: That the family donation or dinner caused the pardon. | U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Pardon Attorney |
| Donald J. Trump | granted clemency to | Changpeng Zhao (CZ) | 2025-10-21 | high | Full pardon signed October 21, 2025, per the DOJ warrant. Does not establish: That lobbying or reported business ties caused the pardon. | U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Pardon Attorney |
| Donald J. Trump | granted clemency to | Julio Herrera Velutini | 2026-01-15 | high | Pardon signed January 15, 2026 (amended January 20), per the DOJ warrant. Does not establish: The truth of the pending FEC straw-donor allegation. | U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Pardon Attorney |
| Donald J. Trump | granted clemency to | Wanda Vázquez Garced | 2026-01-15 | high | Pardon signed January 15, 2026, per the DOJ warrant. Does not establish: Any exchange; the White House says the pardon materials deny one. | U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Pardon Attorney |
| Donald J. Trump | granted clemency to | David Gentile | 2025-11-26 | medium | Commutation to time served (not a full pardon) on November 26, 2025, per NYT reporting of the clemency record. Does not establish: The truth of reported, unproven payment allegations. | The New York Times |
| Donald J. Trump | granted clemency to | Joseph Schwartz | 2025-11-14 | medium | Full pardon on November 14, 2025, per Washington Post reporting. Does not establish: That lobbying payments caused the pardon. | The Washington Post |
| Donald J. Trump | granted clemency to | Tim Leiweke | 2025-12-02 | medium | Pretrial pardon on December 2, 2025, ending a pending prosecution, per WSJ. Does not establish: Guilt or innocence on the ended charge. | The Wall Street Journal Sports Business Journal |
| Donald J. Trump | granted clemency to | Juan Orlando Hernández | 2025-12-01 | medium | Full pardon signed December 1, 2025, per WaPo and WSJ. Does not establish: That the timing determined the Honduran election. | The Washington Post The Wall Street Journal |
| Donald J. Trump | granted clemency to | Scott Jenkins | 2025-05-27 | high | Full pardon on May 27, 2025, the eve of his reporting to prison, per NBC News and the underlying USAO record. Does not establish: Any payment connected to the pardon; none is documented. | NBC News U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Virginia (justice.gov) |
| Trevor Milton | donated to | Trump 47 Joint Fundraising Committee | 2024-10-01 | high | $920,000 to the committee within ~$1.8 million of October 2024 donations with his wife, per FEC filings as reported by AP and NYT. Does not establish: That the donations were connected to the later pardon. | Associated Press The New York Times |
| Elizabeth Fago | donated to | MAGA Inc. | 2025-03-01 | medium | A $1 million donation to the super PAC before her son's pardon, per NYT. Does not establish: That the donation caused the pardon. | The New York Times |
| Elizabeth Fago | family of | Paul Walczak | — | medium | Mother of the pardon recipient. Does not establish: — | The New York Times |
| Isabela Herrera | donated to | MAGA Inc. | 2024-12-01 → 2025-07-31 | high | $3.5 million in contributions in her name (December 2024 – July 2025), per FEC filings as cited in the CLC complaint. Does not establish: The straw-donor allegation, which is pending and unadjudicated. | Campaign Legal Center |
| Isabela Herrera | family of | Julio Herrera Velutini | — | high | Daughter of the pardon recipient. Does not establish: — | Campaign Legal Center |
| Checkpoint Government Systems | lobbied for | Changpeng Zhao (CZ) | — → 2025-10-21 | medium | A reported $1.3 million engagement to pursue clemency, per Politico and The New Yorker as recorded in research. Does not establish: That the lobbying determined the outcome. | Politico |
| Roger Stone | advised / advocated for | Juan Orlando Hernández | — → 2025-12-01 | medium | Stone delivered the four-page clemency plea and urged its election timing, by his own account to WSJ. Does not establish: Any payment for the advocacy; none is documented. | The Washington Post The Wall Street Journal |
| Trey Gowdy | advised / advocated for | Tim Leiweke | — → 2025-12-02 | medium | As Leiweke's attorney, discussed the prosecution with Trump at Mar-a-Lago after golf, per WSJ. Does not establish: That the conversation alone produced the pardon. | The Wall Street Journal |
| Tim Leiweke | officer of | Oak View Group | — | medium | CEO of Oak View Group at the time of the pardon. Does not establish: — | The Wall Street Journal |
| Trevor Milton | officer of | Nikola Corporation | — | medium | Founder of Nikola; the fraud conviction concerned statements about the company. Does not establish: — | Associated Press |
| Changpeng Zhao (CZ) | officer of | Binance | — | medium | Founder of Binance. Does not establish: — | The New York Times |
| The Trump Organization | owns | Mar-a-Lago Club | — | high | Mar-a-Lago is a Trump family property whose income appears on the president's disclosure. Does not establish: — | The Independent U.S. Office of Government Ethics |
| Ed Martin | officer of | U.S. Department of Justice | 2025-03-07 | medium | Serves as DOJ Pardon Attorney; publicly characterized the Jenkins grant with 'No MAGA Left Behind,' per NBC News. Does not establish: The internal decision process for individual grants. | NBC News |
| MGX | invested in | Binance | 2025-03-12 | high | A $2 billion investment announced March 12, 2025 and settled in USD1, per Reuters and The Guardian. Does not establish: That the choice of settlement currency was connected to any U.S. government action. | Reuters The Guardian |
| World Liberty Financial | owns | USD1 (stablecoin) | 2025-03-01 | high | USD1 is issued by World Liberty Financial, per Reuters, The Guardian, and Forbes. Does not establish: The internal revenue split from USD1 reserves; Reuters said public reporting was insufficient to determine the family's final benefit. | The Guardian Forbes |
| Justin Sun | invested in | World Liberty Financial | 2024-11-01 | high | Token purchases of $30 million, later raised to $75 million, making Sun the venture's largest publicly known early investor, per Reuters. Does not establish: Any connection between the investment and the SEC's later stay of its case against him; that sequence is documented, not explained. | Reuters Reuters |
| Cantor Fitzgerald | invested in | Tether | — | medium | A convertible bond of more than $600 million entitling Cantor to 5% of Tether's equity, plus custody of most reserves, per Bloomberg and reporting cited by senators. Does not establish: The exact transaction dates or terms, which public reporting gives only in ranges. | Bloomberg U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (minority) |
| Howard Lutnick | officer of | U.S. Department of Commerce | 2025-02-01 | high | Serves as Commerce Secretary, with authority over export controls and crypto-adjacent policy. Does not establish: That any specific Commerce action was taken at Tether's or Cantor's behest. | U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (minority) CNBC |
| Stephen Feinberg | officer of | U.S. Department of Defense | 2025-01-01 | high | Serves as Deputy Secretary of Defense and top decision-maker for the Golden Dome program, per the Warren letter. Does not establish: That he influenced any specific contract award. | Office of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (warren.senate.gov) |
| Todd Blanche | officer of | U.S. Department of Justice | 2025-01-01 | high | Serves as Deputy Attorney General; signed the April 7, 2025 memo disbanding the crypto enforcement team. Does not establish: That the memo was issued to benefit his disclosed personal crypto holdings. | The Guardian ProPublica |
| CIC Digital LLC | owns | $TRUMP (memecoin) | 2025-01-17 | medium | CIC Digital LLC and Fight Fight Fight LLC reportedly hold 80% of $TRUMP supply on a multi-year unlock, per reporting on the token terms. Does not establish: The realized value of the retained supply, which is price-dependent and partly locked. | Reuters ABC News |
| Stephen Feinberg | business partner of | Cerberus Capital Management | — | medium | Co-founder; his ethics agreement permits an indefinite continuing relationship with the firm for administrative services, per the Warren letter. Cerberus says he divested his stake. Does not establish: Ongoing equity ownership, which Cerberus denies; the documented tie is the continuing-services arrangement. | Office of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (warren.senate.gov) Talking Points Memo |