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Susie Wiles stands by as Donald Trump speaks to staff and reporters aboard his airplane on June 10, 2023.For the past decade, Donald Trump has positioned himself as a political outsider taking on “the establishment” or “the swamp” ― and for all that time, his actions have shown the opposite. His allies and picks for key government posts are generally aligned with corporate America, doing the bidding of the lobbyist class.
covering the past seven years of Wiles’ lobbying career, mostly at Ballard Partners, as well as at Mercury Public Affairs. The records begin a few months into Trump’s first term in 2017 and end this year. In 2018, Politico“the most powerful lobbyist in Trump’s Washington,” in a profile that noted founder Brian Ballard’s status as a major Trump fundraiser ― and Wiles’ status as the Trump campaign’s Florida co-chair.
Months after the Trump EPA announced its cleanup plan, Wiles and her colleagues at Ballard went to work lobbying for the owner of the landfill, Republic Services ― which, as ReutersLobbying reports show that Republic Services paid Ballard $140,000 in 2019 to lobby Congress and federal agencies, including specifically on the issue of “disposition of a Superfund designated landfill.”as “one of a few conventional open-pit heap leach gold mines in the U.S. that is fully permitted and shovel-ready.
Noting that the president-elect cannot receive more than $5,000 per individual transition donor, and that these donations must be disclosed to the public, the Campaign Legal Center argued: “It is possible that Trump — who has no shortage of wealthy allies with special interests — would rather accept unlimited contributions, which would create significant conflicts of interest, than receive the necessary transition services from the federal government to keep the country safe.
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