{"id":42770,"date":"2025-11-05T07:37:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=42770"},"modified":"2025-11-05T07:37:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:37:42","slug":"report-details-massive-federal-contracts-enforcement-actions-against-trumps-ballroom-donors-common-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=42770","title":{"rendered":"Report Details Massive Federal Contracts, Enforcement Actions Against Trump&#8217;s Ballroom Donors | Common Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/president-trump-hosts-dinner-at-white-house-ballroom-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"191\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">President Trump&#8217;s $300 million demolition of the White House&#8217;s East Wing is not just about construction\u2014it&#8217;s about corruption. Major government contractors, facing federal enforcement actions, are funding his ballroom project in a blatant attempt to curry favor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/trump-ballroom-funding\">Report Details Massive Federal Contracts, Enforcement Actions Against Trump&#8217;s Ballroom Donors | Common Dreams<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>But an analysis on Monday\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.org\/article\/banquet-of-greed-trump-ballroom-donors-feast-on-federal-funds-and-favors\/\" target=\"_blank\">detailed<\/a>\u00a0just how \u201cmassive, inescapable, and irremediable\u201d the donors\u2019 conflicts of interest are, as more than a dozen of the presidents\u2019 \u201cfriends\u201d have major government contracts and are facing federal enforcement actions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump&#8217;s $300 million demolition of the White House&#8217;s East Wing is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1102,521],"class_list":["post-42770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-tfg","tag-the-art-of-the-grift","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42773,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42770\/revisions\/42773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}