Here is your Forbes Daily Briefing for Friday, August 16th.

Today on Forbes, here are Trump's top billionaire donors.

At the Republican National Convention last month, Donald Trump's vice presidential pick, Ohio Senator J. D. Vance, said, quote,

We need a leader who's not in the pocket of big business, but answers to the working man, a leader who won't sell

out to multinational corporations, but will stand up for American companies and American industry.

However, Federal Election Commission filings tell a slightly different story.

Many of the nation's richest individuals, including founders and executives at some of America's biggest businesses have backed the Trump Vance ticket.

In fact, 26 billionaires have already given more than $1 million apiece to pro-Trump PACs and

committees, but there may still be something to Vance peace to pro-Trump PACs and committees.

But there may still be something to Vance's distinction

between, quote, multinational corporations

and, quote, American companies,

at least when it comes to who supports Trump.

Of the former president's 26 biggest billionaire donors, 16 derived their fortunes from private,

often family-held corporations based in the US.

Many of them, like Diane Hendricks's ABC Supply

and Liz and Dick U-Lines U-Line

openly celebrate their track record of operating mostly in the US and generating American jobs.

The list includes a few heirs like Johnson and Johnson sign

Woody Johnson and Miriam Adelson, the widow of Casino Magnet Sheldon Adelson.

But the vast majority of the donors, 22 out of 26, have built their own billion dollar

empires.

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