Ex-Trump official Miles Taylor issued a stark warning to those who donated to President Donald Trump's White House ballroom project on Friday, arguing that they and their affiliates “should be losing sleep” over what he cautioned would be a “massive” legal reckoning just on the horizon.
Taylor, who previously served as chief of staff in the Homeland Security Department under Trump, flagged the bombshell report from Public Citizen this week that found more than half of the known donors to the ballroom project had received government contracts in the last six months totaling more than $50 billion.
“The White House calls this a ‘fake’ conflict of interest. But you can almost hear the panic under their voices,” Taylor wrote in an analysis published on his Substack Friday. “It’s not fake. It’s so brazen it should be illegal, and in many cases, future federal prosecutors might discover that it was.”
Last year, it was revealed that the Trump administration had withheld the identities of several ballroom donors despite its pledge to provide full transparency. The Trump administration also went back on its promise that the project would be entirely funded by private donors after a $1 billion ask for ballroom “security” was slipped into a GOP budget proposal.
And now, after further reporting detailed the extent to which ballroom donors have benefited from the Trump administration, Taylor predicted a “huge reckoning” was coming for those involved, and soon.
“Whatever shadow deals might’ve been done to make all of this happen, I can promise they won’t stay secret forever. Although the administration negotiated a covert funding agreement to let donors hide themselves, they were sloppy and stupid,” Taylor wrote.
“Public Citizen pried it loose through a simple FOIA lawsuit, and more disclosures will surely follow. Administrations come to an end. Statutes of limitations do not run out as fast as a news cycle.”