#Foreign-Influence
Events indexed under #Foreign-Influence — 102 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-26 | Witkoff and Kushner Lead Iran Nuclear Talks While Holding Massive Gulf State Financial Conflicts Steve Witkoff · Jared Kushner · Donald Trump · Mohammed bin Salman · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-09 | FBI Director Kash Patel Signs Qatar Security Agreements Despite Recent Lobbying History and Ethics Waiver Controversy Kash Patel · Qatar government · Craig Holman · Public Citizen · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-12-08 | Paramount Skydance Launches $108.4 Billion Hostile Takeover Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery with Saudi, Qatari, and UAE Backing David Ellison · Larry Ellison · Saudi Public Investment Fund · Qatar Investment Authority · +12 | reported | |
| 2025-11-25 | House Judiciary Democrats Release Report Exposing Trump Family's $800 Million Cryptocurrency Empire Built on Foreign Influence and Self-Dealing Jamie Raskin · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Trump Family · +22 | reported | |
| 2025-10-13 | Indonesian President Caught Asking Trump to Arrange Eric Trump Business Meeting Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Prabowo Subianto · Trump Organization | reported | |
| 2025-10-08 | Erdogan Says Trump Promised to End Halkbank Sanctions Prosecution Donald Trump · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Halkbank · U.S. Department of Justice | reported | |
| 2025-09-26 | Envoy Witkoff's Son Pitches $4B Fund to Qatar and UAE While Father Negotiates Ceasefire Steve Witkoff · Alex Witkoff · Qatar Investment Authority · UAE · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-15 | NYT Reveals UAE $2B Crypto Investment Tied to AI Chip Deal Approval Donald Trump · Steve Witkoff · David Sacks · Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-09-09 | Foreign Governments Fund MAGA Influencers for Propaganda Without Proper Disclosure Israel · Hungary · South Korea · MAGA influencers · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-08-27 | India Hires Mercury Public Affairs for $75,000/Month Amid Trump Tariff Threats India · Mercury Public Affairs · Susie Wiles · Trump | reported | |
| 2025-08-26 | Exxon Held Secret Negotiations With Sanctioned Russian Oil Giant Rosneft Over Sakhalin Return Exxon Mobil · Rosneft · Vladimir Putin · Trump | reported | |
| 2025-08-26 | Trump Media Announces $1 Billion Crypto.com Partnership While Trump Holds Presidential Office Trump · Trump Media · Crypto.com · Yorkville Advisors | reported | |
| 2025-08-18 | Trump Pledges Executive Order to Ban Mail-In Voting After Putin Meeting Donald Trump · Vladimir Putin · White House | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-25 | Trump Administration Accepts Qatar's Luxury Jet, Uses Missile Program Funds for Retrofit Donald Trump · Troy Meink · Pete Hegseth | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-25 | Trump Leverages Golf Properties for Diplomatic Negotiations and Trade Deal in Scotland Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Keir Starmer · Ursula von der Leyen · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-10 | Trump Foreign Aid Policy Sparks Global Lobbying Surge Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Marco Rubio · US Lobbying Firms | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-21 | ‘This presidency is a brand-franchise’: Trump has taken the commercialization of politics to a new level Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-10 | Justice Dept. Issues Narrow Guidelines for Prosecuting Corporate Bribery Abroad Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Todd Blanche · Matthew R. Galeotti | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-06 | Communist Party Adviser Purchases Trump Memecoin for VIP Dinner Access Donald Trump · He Tianying · Justin Sun · Adam Schiff · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-02 | Trump Organization Launches 21 International Projects During Second Presidential Term Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Eric Trump · Jared Kushner | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-28 | Who won a seat at Trump's crypto dinner? Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Justin Sun · Foreign Cryptocurrency Investors | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-23 | Trump's crypto dinner guests admit they're trying to buy him off Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Justin Sun · Congressmen Sean Casten · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-22 | Trump Hosts Controversial $TRUMP Memecoin Crypto Dinner Donald Trump · Justin Sun · Rep. Sean Casten · Rep. Adam Smith · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-22 | Witkoff & Trump: Crypto Deal Blends Diplomatic Access with Financial Venture Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Steve Witkoff · Zach Witkoff · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-21 | Trump Administration Officially Accepts $400-500 Million Luxury Boeing 747 from Qatar as Air Force One Gift, Sparking Constitutional Crisis Over Foreign Emoluments and Bribery Donald Trump · Qatar · Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · Chuck Schumer · +10 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-21 | U.S. Accepts Qatar's $400 Million Boeing 747 Jet, Raising Emoluments Concerns Donald Trump · Qatar Royal Family · U.S. Department of Defense · Jamie Raskin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-16 | Senate Permanent Subcommittee opens inquiry into Trump crypto corruption Richard Blumenthal · Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations · Donald Trump · Fight Fight Fight LLC · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-14 | Trump’s Middle East visit comes as his family deepens its business, crypto ties in the region Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-13 | GD Culture Group Announces $300M Cryptocurrency Investment in Bitcoin and Trump Coin Donald Trump · GD Culture Group · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-06 | Trump's Cryptocurrency Dinner Reveals Majority Foreign Buyers Donald Trump · Justin Sun · Jamie Raskin | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-02 | Abu Dhabi sovereign fund commits $2 billion to Trump-linked crypto venture MGX sovereign fund · Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan · World Liberty Financial · Donald Trump · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-02 | Trump family's net worth has increased by $2.9 billion thanks to crypto investments, new report says Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-01 | House Democrats Request Suspicious Activity Reports on Trump Crypto Ventures House Democrats · Donald Trump · World Liberty Financial · Campaign Legal Center · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-30 | Trump Company Strikes $5.5 Billion Qatar Golf Resort Deal During Active Presidency Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Trump Organization · Qatari Diar · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-29 | Trump's World Liberty Financial Reveals Major Foreign Crypto Investments Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Justin Sun · Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-25 | Pentagon Prepared and Then Canceled Classified Briefing for Musk on China War Plans Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Pete Hegseth · Admiral Samuel Paparo | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-14 | Trump Administration Restructures White-Collar Crime Enforcement Strategy Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Matthew Galeotti · James McHenry III | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-05 | Trump family’s cash registers ring as financial meltdown plays out Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Top Anti-Corruption Officials Depart SEC Following Enforcement Pause Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Charles Cain · Tracy Price | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | U.S. lifts sanctions on wife of Putin’s childhood friend Boris Rotenberg Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-26 | How Elon Musk's SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China Elon Musk · SpaceX Executives · Iqbaljit Kahlon | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-21 | Pentagon Alters Musk Meeting After Leaked War Plan Briefing Reports Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Pete Hegseth | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-19 | Donald Trump Jr. meets Serbian president to promote Trump hotel amid massive protests Donald Trump Jr. · Aleksandar Vučić · Trump Organization · Affinity Global Development · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-18 | Russia Proposes Mars Exploration Collaboration with Elon Musk Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Kirill Dmitriev · Elon Musk · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-15 | Senator Blumenthal opens investigation into Trump crypto ventures Richard Blumenthal · Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-12 | Justice Department Significantly Downsizes Public Corruption Investigation Unit Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Pam Bondi · Eric Adams · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-04 | DAEO Ethics Waiver Abrogates Patel's One-Year Qatar Recusal 12 Days After FBI Confirmation Kash Patel · Jolene A. Lauria · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-28 | SEC pauses Justin Sun investigation after $75M Trump investment Securities and Exchange Commission · Justin Sun · World Liberty Financial | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-25 | Trump to launch 'gold card' visa program for $5 million to the rich Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-14 | How Trump's Justice Department has Gutted the Government's Ability to Chase Public Corruption Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | Trump signs order pausing enforcement of foreign bribery ban Donald Trump · Trump Administration · William Barr · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | Kash Patel Received Payments from Russian Filmmaker with Kremlin Ties Kash Patel · Igor Lopatonok · Global Tree Pictures · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-06 | Attorney General Bondi Dramatically Narrows FARA Prosecutorial Scope Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · DOJ National Security Division | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-06 | Trump Nominee Kash Patel Discloses Millions in Shares from Chinese Company Accused of Forced Labor Kash Patel · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Adam Schiff · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-31 | Swiss National Bank purchased 111,300 shares of Trump Media worth $1.78M, stake grows to $5.37M by February Swiss National Bank · Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Trump Media & Technology Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Trump Crypto Dinner Offers Presidential Access for Top $TRUMP Coin Buyers Donald Trump · Justin Sun · Fight Fight Fight LLC · Richard Blumenthal | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | DNI Tulsi Gabbard's Secret Assad Meeting and Russian Ties Alarm Intelligence Allies Tulsi Gabbard · Bashar al-Assad · Russian Intelligence · DNI · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump's Foreign Business Partners and Corporate Leaders Converge at 2025 Inauguration Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Corporate Leaders · Foreign Business Partners | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | AG Pam Bondi Eliminates DOJ KleptoCapture Unit and Foreign Influence Task Force Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Justin Sun's $75 Million Crypto Investment Signals Complex Trump Financial Network Justin Sun · World Liberty Financial · Securities and Exchange Commission · Donald Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-11 | Trump Organization launches $530M Saudi Arabia tower weeks before inauguration Eric Trump · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Dar Global | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-24 | Vitali Klitschko Confronts Joe Rogan for Promoting Russian Propaganda on Ukraine, Rogan Defends Kremlin Narratives Joe Rogan · Vitali Klitschko · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · RT (Russia Today) | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-04 | DOJ Unseals Indictment Revealing $10 Million Russian Funding of Tenet Media Influencers Department of Justice · RT (Russia Today) · Tenet Media · Tim Pool · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-04 | House Oversight minority report: at least $7.8M from 20 foreign governments to Trump businesses (partial records) U.S. House Committee on Oversight (Minority Staff) · Donald J. Trump / Trump Organization · Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington | confirmed | |
| 2023-10-01 | Russian RT Employees Begin Funneling Money Through Tenet Media to US Influencers RT (Russia Today) · Tenet Media · Tim Pool · Benny Johnson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-01 | Trump Crypto Empire Raises Major Constitutional Conflict of Interest Concerns Donald Trump · Trump Media & Technology Group · World Liberty Financial · MGX · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-15 | AT&T partners with Carbyne as authorized reseller, integrating Israeli surveillance tech into national telecom infrastructure AT&T · Carbyne · Ehud Barak · AT&T Ventures | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-31 | Arabella Advisors Network Raises Record $1.35 Billion in Dark Money Arabella Advisors · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Hansjörg Wyss · Eric Kessler | confirmed | |
| 2022-10-01 | Elon Musk begins regular contact with Vladimir Putin Elon Musk · Vladimir Putin | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-01 | Truth Social Receives $8 Million from Russian-Connected Entities While "On Brink of Collapse" Trump Media & Technology Group · Paxum Bank · Anton Postolnikov · ES Family Trust · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-20 | Trump Media Founded with Chinese-Connected Financial Backer Patrick Orlando Donald Trump · Patrick Orlando · Trump Media & Technology Group · Yunhong International · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-15 | Russian Oligarch-Linked Rusal Invests $200 Million in Kentucky Braidy Plant After McConnell Blocks Sanctions Rusal · Oleg Deripaska · En+ Group · Braidy Industries · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2019-02-05 | Trump Overrides 25+ Security Clearance Denials for Family and Allies Donald Trump · Jared Kushner · Ivanka Trump · John Kelly · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-02 | Saudi Crown Prince's Entourage Books Trump Hotel During Khashoggi Crisis Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia government · Trump International Hotel New York · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-14 | Peter Thiel's Founders Fund Invests $15M in Carbyne, Connecting Epstein-Barak Surveillance Network to Erik Prince Operations Peter Thiel · Erik Prince · Lital Leshem · Jeffrey Epstein · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-03 | Kushner Receives $1.28B Qatar Bailout After Blockade Reversal Jared Kushner · Qatar Investment Authority · Brookfield Property Partners · Charles Kushner · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-03 | Qatar-Linked Brookfield Bails Out Kushner's 666 Fifth Avenue for $1.28 Billion Jared Kushner · Kushner Companies · Brookfield Asset Management · Qatar Investment Authority · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-01 | Guo Wengui Begins Funding Steve Bannon Operations Guo Wengui · Miles Guo · Steve Bannon · Guo Media · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-28 | China grants waves of Ivanka Trump trademarks as she serves in White House; ethics watchdogs flag conflicts Ivanka Trump · Ivanka Trump Marks LLC · China National Intellectual Property Administration | confirmed | |
| 2017-11-01 | Kushner Shares Classified Intel Leading to Saudi Mass Arrests Jared Kushner · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-09-01 | Facebook Admits Russians Bought $100,000 in Ads to Influence 2016 Election Facebook · Internet Research Agency · US Congress · Russian Government · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-04-06 | Ivanka Trump Receives Chinese Trademarks During Xi Jinping Dinner Ivanka Trump · China · Xi Jinping · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-15 | Cofer Black, Former Blackwater Vice Chairman and CIA Counterterrorism Chief, Joins Burisma Board Joseph Cofer Black · Erik Prince · Nikolay Zlochevskyi · Hunter Biden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-01 | Rex Tillerson ExxonMobil CEO Becomes Secretary of State Rex Tillerson · ExxonMobil · Vladimir Putin · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-20 | Trump Organization Receives 3.6M from Foreign Governments Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Saudi Arabia · China · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-14 | Black Ledger Reveals $12.7 Million in Secret Cash Payments to Trump Campaign Chair Manafort Paul Manafort · Viktor Yanukovych · Oleg Deripaska · Trump Campaign · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-01 | NRA Spends Record $30-55 Million Supporting Trump, FBI Investigates Russian Money Laundering National Rifle Association · Donald Trump · Maria Butina · Alexander Torshin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2015-10-28 | Trump Signs Letter of Intent for $1 Billion Moscow Tower While Running for President Donald Trump · Michael Cohen · Felix Sater · VTB Group · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2015-07-11 | Russian Agent Maria Butina Questions Trump About Sanctions at FreedomFest, Trump Promises to "Get Along" with Putin Maria Butina · Donald Trump · Alexander Torshin · Vladimir Putin | confirmed | |
| 2015-06-01 | Russian Internet Research Agency begins Facebook ad campaign to influence U.S. politics Internet Research Agency · Facebook · Yevgeny Prigozhin | confirmed | |
| 2014-05-12 | Hunter Biden Joins Burisma Board While Father Leads Ukraine Policy Hunter Biden · Burisma Holdings · Joe Biden · Devon Archer | confirmed | |
| 2014-05-01 | Eric Trump says all funding comes from Russia, not U.S. banks Eric Trump · James Dodson · Trump Organization | reported | |
| 2014-01-01 | Erik Prince Founds Frontier Services Group with Chinese State Investment from CITIC, Controlled by Chang Zhenming Erik Prince · Chang Zhenming · CITIC Group · Frontier Services Group | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | Erik Prince Receives $529M Contract to Build Secret Mercenary Army for UAE Crown Prince Erik Prince · Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan · Reflex Responses · United Arab Emirates | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin Begin Systematic NRA Infiltration Operation Maria Butina · Alexander Torshin · National Rifle Association · David Keene · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2008-09-15 | Trump Jr. says Russians make up disproportionate cross-section of assets Donald Trump Jr. · Trump Organization | confirmed | |
| 2001-06-01 | Saudi Arabia purchases entire 45th floor of Trump World Tower for UN mission Saudi Arabia · Trump Organization · Trump World Tower | confirmed | |
| 2000-02-01 | Halliburton Opens Tehran Office While Cheney Still CEO, Completing $40 Million Annual Iran Business Through Cayman Islands Subsidiary Designed to Circumvent U.S. Sanctions Dick Cheney · Halliburton · Halliburton Products and Services · Bill Clinton | confirmed | |
| 1991-01-01 | Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal purchases Trump yacht during financial crisis Prince Alwaleed bin Talal · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Saudi Arabia | confirmed | |
| 1990-10-01 | Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly Begins Lobbying for Kashmiri American Council, Later Revealed as Pakistani ISI Front Paul Manafort · Black Manafort Stone and Kelly · Kashmiri American Council · Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai · +2 | confirmed |