SoftBank donated $50 million to Trump’s library just months before federal data center deal

The Portsmouth, Ohio tract wherever SoftBank volition physique its information center. | Image: US Department of Energy

SoftBank contributed $50 cardinal to the Trump Presidential Library successful January, conscionable months earlier announcing that it's leasing onshore from the national authorities to physique a sprawling information halfway successful Ohio. The Japanese institution revealed the timing in response to a June missive from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), which raised concerns astir bribery.

"Are we expected to judge it's a coincidence that 2 months aft Softbank donated $50 cardinal to the Trump library, his medication announced a monolithic lease woody for Softbank's information center?" Sen. Warren said successful a connection to The …

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