Donors Who Gave Millions to Trump in Final Drive Score Top Jobs

President-elect Donald Trump’s political operation received an influx of cash in the campaign’s final days from wealthy donors propping up a bid that had far less money on hand than Democratic rival Kamala Harris.

Just weeks later, many of those donors have been named to prominent roles in Trump’s new administration.

The biggest donor by far for the entire election cycle — Elon Musk — poured $75 million into the pro-Trump super political action committee he founded in the final weeks of the election, and continued to give an additional $45 million to America PAC after Trump had ...