- Well-heeled donors can pay $814,600 for a seat at the former president’s table
- Hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah are co-chairs
- John Paulson is in the running to become Trump’s Treasury secretary
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Donald Trump supporters in the billionaire enclave of Palm Beach are staging one last big fundraising campaign before heading off to cooler summer climes with a huge donor event hosted by mega-investor John Paulson.
Tickets for the event, a who’s who of Palm Beach’s MAGA world, top out at $814,600 for a seat at the former president’s table, according to an invitation obtained by DailyMail.com. Other places only cost a quarter of a million dollars.
Trump scored enough primary victories to become the presumptive Republican nominee last week, and with his focus now on the general election, he intends to catch up to President Joe Biden on fundraising.
The April 6 event at hedge fund founder Paulson’s $110 million home will be one of the final events as Palm Beach’s “season” draws to a close.
And it shows the extent to which the Republican elite is closing ranks around Trump.
Donald Trump will leave Palm Beach in the coming weeks as the “season” draws to a close and residents head to cooler summer climes. That means a flurry of fundraising among the billionaires who winter on the Florida coast.
John Paulson and his girlfriend Alina De Almeida will host Trump and donors at their $110 million Palm Beach home next month.
Co-chairs of the “inaugural leadership dinner,” according to the invitation first reported by the New York Post, include hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, who told friends two years ago that They had no intention of helping Trump’s 2024 campaign.
Hotelier and space entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, who last year gave $20 million to a group supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, is another co-chair.
Other guests include more reliable Trump donors, such as New York Jets owner Woody Johnson, the president’s former ambassador to London, Wilbur Ross, Trump’s commerce secretary, and Linda McMahon, the co-founder of WWE who was a small business administrator.
Former rivals for the nomination, Sen. Tim Scott, Gov. Doug Burgum and Vivek Ramaswami are listed as special guests.
“I am pleased to support President Trump in his re-election efforts,” Paulson said.
“His policies on the economy, energy, immigration and foreign policy will be of great benefit to the country.”
Paulson would be in the running to become Treasury secretary in a second Trump administration.
“And John Paulson, the great John Paulson made a lot of money in Nevada,” he said in January after his victory in the New Hampshire primary, picking the billionaire out of the crowd. “He doesn’t live there, but he makes a lot of money. In fact, he makes money wherever he goes.
“So, a slot machine. Maybe we’ll put it, you know what, in the Treasury. Do you want to earn some money?
Tickets for the event cost $814,600 for a seat at the former president’s table
Other co-chairs include Jets owner Woody Johnson, who was Trump’s ambassador to London.
Billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah Mercer (seen here in 2017) were major Trump supporters in 2016 and 2020, but had hinted they would not participate in the 2024 campaign.
The fundraiser comes as Trump looks to head into the election.
Biden’s campaign announced last month that it had raised $53 million in February and had $155 million in cash on hand, the largest war chest a candidate has ever had at this point in the election year.
At the same time, Trump is facing financial difficulties.
This week, his lawyers were forced to admit they failed to secure nearly half a billion dollars in bail in a civil case in New York. This raises the possibility that the state will attempt to seize some of its properties.