Subject: Event: Donald Trump/RNC Fundraiser, Los Angeles, CA, 5/25
From: "Yoxall, Collin" <[email-masked]>
To: Research_D <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 14:35:13 -0700

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/05/11/trump-fundraising-operation-ramping-up-with-los-angeles-kick-off/?postshare=1771463002128767&tid=ss_tw

An ambitious fundraising effort that aims to collect as much as $1 billion to support presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee is taking form, with plans to kick off an aggressive schedule of finance events in Los Angeles at the end of this month.

Investor Thomas Barrack Jr., who did real estate business with Trump in the 1980s, is scheduled to host a campaign fundraiser honoring the candidate on May 25, according to multiple sources familiar with the plans. The gathering at Barrack's home is set to include a photo line, cocktails and dinner. A spokesman for Barrack declined to comment and referred questions about the event to the Trump campaign. A campaign aide confirmed the event was taking place.

The dinner fundraiser is set to be the first of as many as 50 finance events that the campaign and party are racing to set up as they try to rapidly build out a structure to appeal to major donors. Trump's willingness to participate in the functions - after months of bashing other candidates for their ties to wealthy contributors - represents a dramatic shift in his posture.

Collin Yoxall
Research Associate, DNC
Office: 202-863-8126 X8126
Mobile: 334-703-1690
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