The Billionaire Donors Behind Trump’s Midterm Superweapon
Forbes Daily Briefing
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:30.3 | Last year, the GOP's legacy donor class and its newer crop of tech and finance billionaires |
| 0:35.9 | found common cause, writing enormous |
| 0:38.7 | checks to support Donald Trump. |
| 0:41.6 | In February, billionaire Kelsey Warren and his fossil fuel pipeline company, energy transfer, |
| 0:47.7 | each sent $12.5 million to MAGA, Inc., a Trump-aligned SuperPack. |
| 0:54.0 | Just a few months later, OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman and his wife |
| 0:58.8 | cut checks for $12.5 million each. |
| 1:02.8 | That makes Warren and Brockman the biggest individual donors to MAGA, Inc. |
| 1:08.1 | But the roster is deeper than two names and four eight-figure checks. |
| 1:12.8 | Forbes counts at least 24 billionaires, or billionaire families, who have given over $1 million, |
| 1:19.3 | according to Federal Election Commission filings covering through the end of March. |
| 1:24.5 | Brockman is not currently on Forbes's list of billionaires, but he did claim to be one in testimony |
| 1:29.7 | related to Elon Musk's lawsuit against Open AI. |
| 1:34.8 | Collectively, these 10-figure club members, plus Brockman, donated $118 million, about a third of |
| 1:41.7 | the $350 million war chest MAGA Inc. has built. |
| 1:46.1 | After Warren and Brockman, it reads like the donor role from every modern Republican spending spree. |
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