President Trump, who has been hosting fund-raising dinners at a pace unseen by any second-term president, is scheduled to hold two more early next year, according to copies of the invitations seen by The New York Times.
Mr. Trump is slated to attend two high-dollar “candlelight dinners” — one at Trump National Golf Club near Washington on Jan. 31, the second at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s private club in Palm Beach, Fla., on Feb. 27.
The ticket price for each? $1 million a seat.
The money for these dinners, like previous ones, will flow to a super PAC devoted to Mr. Trump, MAGA Inc., which has vacuumed up hundreds of millions of dollars since he was re-elected last year. What precisely he intends to use those funds for is not clear; his outside group has been slow to spend money on behalf of other Republicans.
Politicians’ super PACs are generally used for their own elections. Though term-limited, Mr. Trump has flirted with the idea of running for a constitutionally prohibited third term.
The only other two-term president in the modern campaign-finance era, Barack Obama, did not raise money for a supportive super PAC after he was re-elected in 2012.
Mr. Trump is taking advantage of the enormous interest from a business community eager to curry favor with him. Executives and lobbyists have sometimes used these private sessions with Mr. Trump to pitch him on their preferred policy areas or to push for presidential pardons for clients.
The invitations say that “space is very limited” and that seats are available “first come, first served.”
Theodore Schleifer is a Times reporter covering billionaires and their impact on the world.
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