PoliticsSoftBank donated $50 million to Trump’s library before federal data center deal

SoftBank gave $50 million to the Trump Presidential Library in January. Only months later, the Japanese company announced a plan to lease federal land for a sprawling data center in Ohio. The timing was disclosed in response to a June letter from Senators Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal and Representative Melanie. The correspondence brought the donation and the subsequent federal land arrangement into the same public discussion.

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