“Corporations facing federal lawsuits and investigations aren’t giving millions to Trump’s inauguration out of the kindness of their hearts. They are trying to buy goodwill.”

An analysis released Monday in the wake of new Federal Election Commission filings shows that the Trump administration has dropped or paused federal enforcement cases against at least 17 corporations that donated to Trump’s inaugural fund, an indication that companies’ attempts to buy favor with the White House are already paying off.

In the new analysis, the watchdog group Public Citizen cross-references FEC data released Sunday with its own Corporate Enforcement Tracker, which documents companies facing federal cases for alleged wrongdoing.

Public Citizen found that corporations facing federal investigations or enforcement lawsuits donated a combined $50 million to Trump’s inaugural committee. Trump raised a record sum of $239 million for his second inauguration, the new FEC filings show.

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    9 hours ago

    Thank you! According to your explication of memes, which I agree on, the whole thing would be quite sad and risky, socially speaking. Because it means we all would be giving away our ability to pick a very specific term for an already-existent one, possibly since the second option is just cheaper, in terms of effort. This regardless that the one we chose is not the most suitable and could even be misleading, included “sanewashining”. For example, people reading that Meta is trying to buy Trump’s goodwill will be probably more gentle in judging Meta, while the journalust goal was maybe to describe how Meta is a dangerous company (if it wasnt his, it is surely mine). This specific attempt partially failed, of course. So “sane-washing” is in itself a sane-washing term to indicate a more or less serious kind of misinformation. In this sense, smaller newspapers are more likely to avoid this linguistic simplification, since they are probably less controlled by statal agencies (maybe I am wrong?). I appreciate very much your insight, and though I know everyone is biased, I will take a look at your suggestions.