Tag: Miriam Adelson

Miriam Adelson was awarded Medal of Freedom after donating $500k to Trump aides’ legal expenses

President Trump presents Miriam Adelson, wife of Sheldon Adelson, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Credit: Cheriss May, NurPhoto

The Adelsons were the biggest donors to Trump’s campaign other than Trump.

In the last three months of 2018, GOP megadonors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson donated $500,000 to a fund set up to pay legal expenses incurred by aides to President Donald Trump, The Washington Post reported Thursday night.

Contributions to the fund are specifically allocated to pay expenses for aides wrapped up in the investigation into whether Russia colluded with the Trump campaign. The Adelsons donated $250,000 each on October 1. Just a little over one month later, Trump awarded Miriam Adelson the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Before receiving the medal, the Adelsons donated $30 million to Trump’s presidential campaign in the final months of the 2016 race, and last year, donated $100 million to various Republican candidates and GOP-aligned PACs in the midterm elections. In fact, as Open Secrets noted last fall, other than Trump himself, the Adelsons were the largest donors to the Trump campaign. They also donated $5 million to Trump’s inaugural committee.

View the complete February 1 article by Addy Baird on the ThinkProgress website here.

Sheldon Adelson Breaks Spending Record on Midterm Elections, Surpassing $100M

Conservative megadonor outpaces his 2016 spending

Sheldon Adelson Credit: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo

Conservative megadonors Sheldon Adelson and Miriam Adelson have doled out more than $100 million to aid Republicans in the midterm election, far outpacing their giving during the 2016 presidential cycle.

A new $25 million donation puts the billionaire benefactors’ total spending toward helping Republicans hold on to both chambers of Congress at $113 million, Bloomberg reported. The donation was to the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC with ties to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

That total surpasses the $82.6 million the couple spent on the 2016 cycle.

View the complete October 22 article by Emily Kopp on the Roll Call  website here.