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Who’s the Businessman who set up the new Private Trump Club in DC?

John Pelissero, director, government ethics, quoted by Mother Jones.

Executive Branch Club President and San Francisco real estate businessman Glenn Gilmore is a close business associate of David Sacks, Trump’s crypto and AI czar. Gilmore's role in the endeavor adds to possible ethics questions related to Sacks’ involvement in this operation, according to government ethics experts.

“The real problem,” says John Peliserro, director of government ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, “is that no official in a presidential administration should be promoting a business, including that club. It provides an opportunity for business partners and friends of members of the administration to do business out of the public eye.”

 

John Pelissero, director, government ethics, quoted by Mother Jones.

 

Jun 12, 2025
Ethics
media, government