What to Know About Wall Street Donors Backing Trump’s Campaign (1)

June 12, 2024, 9:15 PM UTC

Donald Trump entered the 2024 presidential race as a pariah on Wall Street and among the monied Republican donor class.

Not anymore.

Financiers who abandoned Trump after his supporters stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — and who kept their distance as he continued to claim falsely that the 2020 election was stolen — are throwing their weight behind him again.

Billionaire donors including investor Steve Schwarzman and hotel magnate Miriam Adelson have come back to support Trump. His campaign raised a record $141 million in May on the heels of a New York jury convicting him on 34 ...





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