The Wall Street Journal

Inside Trump’s million-dollar dinners with health chiefs

Inside Trump’s million-dollar dinners with health chiefs
Donald Trump told associates the dinners raised about US$500 million. (Image: Getty)
The Wall Street Journal
By Josh Dawsey and Anna Wilde MathewsFirst came the pharmaceutical executives. Then the insurance companies and the hospital leaders. During two months that shattered records for presidential transitions, healthcare executives wrote some of the largest cheques, paying millions of dollars to attend at least six different dinners with Donald Trump before he took office again as President, according to people familiar with them. In his gold-covered, chandeliered dining room just off the lobby at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, Trump disc...

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