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House Democrats on the Natural Resources Committee<\/u> have released a report describing how the . It outlines interim findings that the Trump organization<\/u> put together a shell company to supplant the Congressionally-created commission, America250<\/u>, with a partisan one, Freedom 250<\/u>, defrauding donors and pilfering donations along the way.<\/p>\n

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In 2016, ten years in advance of the country\u2019s 250th birthday, a nonpartisan commission called America250<\/u> to plan and orchestrate the largest commemoration in U.S. history. Its mandated purpose<\/u> was to encourage all Americans to \u2018remember the nation’s past, celebrate the present, and look forward to building a promising future.\u2019 <\/p>\n

America250 spent ten years organizing events, volunteer campaigns, and educational initiatives across all 50 states to celebrate our Semiquincentennial. America250\u2019s slogan<\/u>, \u201c350 for 250- Engaging all 350 million Americans in celebrating our nation\u2019s 250th anniversary,\u201d stresses civic inclusivity devoid of politics.<\/p>\n

But last year, after his attempts to pack America250 with loyalists were unsuccessful, Trump created a competing commission, Freedom 250, via executive order<\/u>. Falsely describing Freedom 250 as the \u201cnational, non-partisan organization leading the celebration of our Nation’s 250th birthday,\u201d Freedom 250 was incorporated as an LLC in October 2025. Under the National Park Foundation, governed by a board of Trump loyalists, Freedom 250 solicited pay-to-play donations<\/u> from companies with major federal contracts pending\u2014 including Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Oracle \u2014to financially support Freedom 250 instead of America250.<\/p>\n

Defrauding the nation on its 250<\/strong>th<\/strong> birthday<\/strong><\/p>\n

The report describes how Trump demanded that his name and name-branded politics should dominate the historic celebrations. When America250 pushed back on Trump\u2019s plan as too partisan<\/u>, he supplanted the commission by creating his own.<\/p>\n

After Freedom 250 hijacked federal planning activities, most scheduled performers withdrew from the celebration. They had agreed to perform at a national, nonpartisan concert, but cancelled when they found out it was overtly partisan. Other activities planned by Trump\u2019s Freedom 250 included the very on-brand Military Parade for Trump\u2019s birthday and this year’s White House UFC cage fight<\/u>, along with the controversial Great American State Fair<\/u>. The latter featured partisan exhibits complete with a confederate flag<\/u>; the 16-day event caused extensive damage<\/u> to the lawns and the National Mall. Meanwhile, Freedom 250 continues the Trump-centric assault, planning construction on his 250-foot-tall \u201ctriumphal arch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump illegally<\/u> billed his July 4 culminating speech on the National Mall as a \u201cTRUMP RALLY\u201d<\/u>, making himself\u2014not the nation, not our history\u2014 the central figure of America\u2019s only 250th birthday celebration. Trump\u2019s rally, replete with partisan rhetoric and fearmongering<\/u> about Democrats, concluded with \u201cthe largest fireworks display ever,\u201d costing taxpayers an estimated $45 million<\/u>. <\/p>\n

Millions for Trump\u2019s cronies<\/strong><\/p>\n

A separate report from Public Citizen describes how a \u201cTrumpified series of events at the public\u2019s expense\u201d awarded over $100 million in no-bid contracts to celebrate our 250th birthday to a network of Trump-affiliated political allies. One of those contracts awarded tens of millions of dollars to Event Strategies, Inc., the same firm behind the J6 attack<\/u> on the U.S. Capital.<\/p>\n

Out of $120 million in public funds Congressionally earmarked for America250 planned celebrations, over $100 million was funneled directly to entities with political ties to Trump, essentially turning it into Trump\u2019s slush fund with little or no transparency, accounting, or public reporting. Overall, Trump\u2019s Freedom 250 received between $65 and $80 million of the funding<\/u> Congress allocated to America250.<\/p>\n

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Alas, the fraud and self-dealing didn\u2019t stop there. Aside from the deceptive rebrand, awarding hundreds of millions in no-bid contracts to Trump cronies, inviting pay to play federal contractor donations, and diverting Congressional funds to Trump\u2019s partisan commission, public donations intended for America250 were purposely diverted to Trump\u2019s organization.<\/p>\n

Wire fraud and deception are not Presidential activities entitling Trump to criminal immunity<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to interim findings<\/u>, donors who tried to send money to America250 and given Freedom 250’s<\/em><\/em> banking information, meaning contributions solicited in the name of the Congressionally mandated commission were routed instead to the President’s substitute entity. As yet unverified, the facts suggests that America250 donors were defrauded through wire transfer instructions, bank account numbers, and routing numbers that funneled their donations to Trump\u2019s Freedom 250 commission.<\/p>\n

Trump converted America’s once-in-250-years celebration into a parade of self-regard and personal enrichment, embodying our founders\u2019 warnings<\/u> about men like him. Assuming the evidence matches the allegations, his tactics constitute criminal fraud, and the evidence won\u2019t be hard to track down. Electronic records of online donations and routing can\u2019t be erased; metadata will prove what was sent, by whom and when, and how it was diverted to Freedom 250. Such deception also likely constitutes <\/u>wire fraud<\/u> as well as charitable solicitation fraud. <\/u><\/p>\n

Democratic lawmakers are now demanding a full accounting<\/u> of diverted donor records and contracts, while Republican leadership has largely blocked information, shielded people involved, and refused to hold hearings on the matter. Democrats, in the minority, have diminished subpoena power<\/u>, but that is likely to change in November. <\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s criminal immunity will be challenged after the midterms; even now, it arising from core constitutional duties. Establishing an entity to compete<\/em><\/em> with the Congressionally mandated America250 commission was illicit, extra-judicial, and purely partisan, and very likely exceeds any official, constitutional, or statutory authority. Trump billing our 250<\/u>th<\/u> July 4 celebration on the national mall as a TRUMP RALLY<\/u> sealed the deal. <\/p>\n

Trump robbed Americans of a sacred commemoration that won\u2019t come again for many generations, if ever. He wanted to make our nation\u2019s 250th birthday all about him. History books will likely oblige<\/u>.<\/p>\n

Sabrina Haake is a political analyst and 25+ year federal trial attorney specializing in 1st and 14th A defense. She writes the free Substack, The Haake Take.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more Experts tear apart Trump\u2019s \u2018awful\u2019 new scam as \u2018deeply unserious\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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