Donald Trump still hasn’t disclosed private transition donors, missing a deadline that every other president, including Trump himself in 2016, has met for decades.
When Trump’s campaign decided to run a fully privately funded presidential transition, it also jumped through a legal loophole that would have required disclosure by Feb. 19 and a $5,000 contribution limit.
In November, Trump’s now-chief of staff, Susie Wiles, promised to voluntarily make the donors public. But Trump still hasn’t done so, and the White House hasn’t provided a timeline for when he will.
Wiles committed to disclosing the donors two days after The New York Times reported about Trump’s unprecedented break with tradition in rejecting public transition funds and services, and running entirely on private donations.