One of President Donald Trump’s top law enforcement nominees made tens of thousands of dollars from posting online last year.
Harmeet Dhillon, a prominent Republican lawyer who has been nominated to serve as the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice, said in a financial disclosure made public on Thursday that she had made $43,531 from X’s content-creator revenue program.
Dhillon has more than 1.1 million followers on X, and she frequently posts on the social media platform.
She’s at least the third Trump nominee to have made money this way. National Institute of Health Director nominee Jay Bhattacharya made $11,995 from the program, while Sam Brown, a former Nevada GOP Senate candidate who’s been nominated to be Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs at the Department of Veterans Affairs, made $5,169.
Under the revenue program, created by Elon Musk after he took over and renamed Twitter, premium users can earn payouts based on engagement from other premium users.
Bhattacharya, Brown, and Dhillon have all agreed to demonetize their accounts if confirmed to their roles.
Dhillon’s main source of income was her work as a lawyer: She disclosed earning more than $2 million in income from her firm, Dhillon Law Group, last year. Her major clients, according to the disclosure, included President Trump and his campaign, Tucker Carlson, the Republican National Committee, Caitlyn Jenner, and X itself.
She also earned a $300,000 salary from the Center for American Liberty, a civil liberties-focused legal nonprofit she helped found in 2018, along with $50,000 from four paid speeches.
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