The Republican Jewish Coalition, an AIPAC ally, has spent >$14 million supporting Trump since 2020. Vice President JD Vance has received >$167,000 in campaign contributions from the Israel lobby.

November 7, 2024 - The 30-second video warns that Trump is “scapegoating Jews” and shows Harris lighting a menorah. In addition to Schusterman and Lavine, major donors to the JDCA include Jeff Schoenfeld, a New York investment banker who has helped distribute the Jewish federation network’s post-Oct. 7 emergency funding for Israel, who gave $50,000; and Charles Bronfman, a Canadian-American Jewish philanthropist and billionaire, chipped in $25,000 last spring.

July 9, 2020 - President Trump’s reelection campaign sent a letter to would-be voters accusing Democrats of trying to “rig the November election” with money from three billionaires with Jewish ancestry. The letter, which was first publicized last week by the progressive Jewish group Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, criticized Democrats for trying to expand remote voting options.

July 9, 2020 - In the final days of the 2016 presidential election campaign, the Trump campaign was criticized for running an ad with flashing images of Jewish financial figures who had allegedly 'robbed our working class' ... U.S. President Trump’s reelection campaign sent a letter to would-be voters accusing three billionaires with Jewish ancestry of trying to “rig the November election.”

October 17, 2024 - [Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images] Israeli-American billionaire Miriam Adelson has spent $95 million on her political action committee (PAC) supporting former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, according to the latest ...

November 5, 2024 - The 30-second video warns that Trump is “scapegoating Jews” and shows Harris lighting a menorah. In addition to Schusterman and Lavine, major donors to the JDCA include Jeff Schoenfeld, a New York investment banker who has helped distribute the Jewish federation network’s post-Oct. 7 emergency funding for Israel, who gave $50,000; and Charles Bronfman, a Canadian-American Jewish philanthropist and billionaire, chipped in $25,000 last spring.

November 19, 2024 - Howard Lutnick, the billionaire head of finance firm Cantor Fitzgerald, is the co-chair of Trump’s transition team. He raised campaign funds for Trump and has taken on a prominent role on the president-elect’s team in recent months, speaking for Trump in the media and earning plaudits from Trump family members and the campaign. He has been in touch with Kushner about hiring and Musk about budget policy, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Washington Post has reported that Lutnick is a candidate for treasury secretary, though more recently, The New York Times reported that Lutnick “has gotten on Mr. Trump’s nerves lately.” · Lutnick is a supporter of pro-Israel causes including the first responder group United Hatzalah and Birthright, which organizes free 10-day trips for Jewish groups to the country. A New York native, Lutnick accompanied Trump to the grave of the late spiritual leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, last month.

November 21, 2024 - The couple gave $20m to Trump's 2016 campaign and, two years later, $113m to Republican and conservative groups and candidates during the 2018 midterm election cycle.

19 hours ago - It's because three billionaires from outside of Kentucky have funneled millions of dollars in here. They're trying to buy a seat," Massie said in an interview on ABC News' "This Week." On Friday, Massie told a reporter that his has "turned into a referendum on whether Israel gets to buy seats in Congress." Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., appears on ABC News' "This Week" on May 17, 2026. ... "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos pressed Massie on the comment, asking him, "What did you mean by that?" ... Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy defeated, Julia Letlow and John Fleming advance to runoff, AP projects · Massie said that two of the individuals he named -- major GOP donors Miriam Adelson and Paul Singer, along with the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) and American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), are "all part of the Israeli lobby." Adelson and Singer are both major AIPAC contributors.

April 9, 2017 - Arif, a former Soviet bureaucrat turned wealthy real estate developer, owns a mansion in Port Washington, an upscale suburb, but he makes a curious patron for the town’s Chabad. A Kazakh-born citizen of Turkey with a Muslim name, Arif is not Jewish, according to people who have worked with him. In 2010, he was arrested in a raid on a yacht in Turkey that once belonged to the founder of the modern Turkish state, Mustafa Kamal Ataturk, and charged with running an international underage prostitution ring. Arif was later cleared of the charges. Before the scandal on Ataturk’s yacht, Arif partnered closely with Trump, Ivanka Trump and Sater in the development of Trump SoHo along with the Sapir family, a New York real estate dynasty and the other half of Bayrock-Sapir. Its patriarch, the late billionaire Tamir Sapir, was born in the Soviet state of Georgia and arrived in 1976 in New York, where he opened an electronics store in the Flatiron district that, according to the New York Times, cat

November 7, 2024 - After Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, many Jewish donors jumped to fund efforts that they believed would need additional support in light of the incoming administration, such as women’s, immigrant and racial justice groups. This time around, as a second Trump term looms, Jewish Funders Network President and CEO Andrés Spokoiny says their attention is likely...

2 weeks ago - But the roster is deeper than two names and four eight-figure checks. Forbes counts at least 24 billionaires or billionaire families who have given over $1 million, according to Federal Election Commission filings covering through the end of March. (Brockman is not currently on Forbes’ list of billionaires, but he did claim to be one in testimony related to Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI). Collectively, these ten-figure club members, plus Brockman, donated $118 million, about a third of the $350 million war chest MAGA Inc has built. After Warren and Brockman, it reads like the donor roll from every modern Republican spending spree: Wall Street trader Jeff Yass ($16 million), private equity tycoon Stephen Schwarzman ($5 million) and Estee Lauder heir Ronald Lauder ($5 million), among others. In a few cases, financial support opened doors to actual positions in Donald Trump’s administration.

September 25, 2020 - Adelson’s endorsement of Trump in May 2016 opened the floodgates to Jewish donors who until then had been skeptical of the candidate. Their ongoing support for Trump has been in question: Trump reportedly berated Sheldon Adelson last month for not giving enough to the campaign as Biden’s fundraising began to outpace the incumbent’s. But Adelson bellied up this month and has pledged $50 million to elect Republicans and send Trump back to the White House.

3 days ago - Washington, D.C. (May 14, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, issued the following statement on ABC News’ reporting that President Donald Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion slush fund to issue taxpayer-funded payouts to MAGA allies who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden Administration:

September 20, 2024 - Concluding his remarks, the former president reiterated: “I believe that Israel will be wiped off the face of the earth if I don’t win.” He described, without evidence, Harris as “anti-Israel” and “anti-Jewish”, even though the vice-president is married to a Jewish man, Doug Emhoff. Trump was introduced by the mega-donor Miriam Adelson, a co-owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team and the widow of the billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.

March 21, 2016 - "After having carefully reviewed the speech, we do not believe that it was Donald Trump’s intention to evoke anti-Semitic stereotypes," Greenblatt's statement said. "In this case he is speaking to a group of Jewish Republicans, a significant portion of whom are business people. We do not believe he intended his comments regarding negotiations and money to relate specifically to their Jewishness, but we understand that they could be interpreted that way.” · Greenblatt’s stance appears to have hardened in the subsequent months, however, resulting in the redirection of Trump’s past contributions. While Trump has said that likening him to Adolf Hitler, as some have done, is "terrible," some people continue to repeat the comparison. Anne Frank's stepsister Eva Schloss wrote a column for Newsweek saying that Trump is mimicking the infamous Nazi leader by inciting racism.

December 12, 2015 - He took the strategy a step further on Thursday at the Republican Jewish Coalition, teasing wealthy Republican Jewish donors that they probably won’t support him because he would not accept the money they might offer as a way of currying favor with the New York billionaire should he win the White House.

August 16, 2023 - Donald Trump May Be the Front-runner to Secure the Republican Presidential Nomination, but That Doesn’t Mean He’s Got a Monopoly on All the Jewish Megadonors. Far From It, as Our Analysis of Super PAC and Campaign Donations Shows

August 31, 2021 - The casino billionaire is the RJC’s primary benefactor and spent more on the 2012 elections than any other donor. His tens of millions almost single-handedly kept alive former House speaker Newt Gingrich’s doomed bid for the White House. “The RJC plays such a constructive role in electing Republicans,” Jeb Bush said on Thursday. Critics accuse it of whipping up pro-Israel hysteria that bears little relation to the concerns of moderate Jewish Americans.