Trump’s team charges up to $250,000 for Beverly Hills fundraiser

Republican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump reacts during a campaign rally at the Forum River Center in Rome, Georgia, US March 9, 2024. FILE PHOTO/REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer

BEVERLY HILLS – Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to hold campaign fundraisers in Beverly Hills on June 7 and in Newport Beach on June 8.

Tickets for the Beverly Hills fundraiser are priced from $5,000 to attend a reception to $250,000 per person, with the buyer designated as an event chair, according to an invitation obtained by City News Service.

Other ticket prices are $100,000 to participate in a roundtable or $40,000, or raising $75,000, for a photo opportunity.

Tickets for the Newport Beach events range from $3,300 for a lunch reception to $100,000 to be designated as a member of the roundtable host committee. The chance to take a picture with Trump goes for $35,000 or raising $75,000.

The visit will be Trump’s first to Southern California since Sept. 29-30, when he spoke at the California Republican Party Fall Convention in Anaheim and a fundraiser in Costa Mesa and visited the Carvel Ice Cream shop in Westwood.

Also in June, President Joe Biden will attend a major fundraiser at the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles with former President Obama and celebrities George Clooney and Julia Roberts, according to Los Angeles Times.

The event follows Biden’s West Coast swing last week that raised $10 million on a two-day swing through Northern California and Seattle, according to NBC News.

Pres. Biden also plans to hold a fundraiser with former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the East Coast early this summer, NBC News reported.

First lady Jill Biden made a brief visit to the Southland Friday, speaking at an afternoon fundraiser for her husband’s reelection campaign – the third fundraiser she had attended in two days in two
states.

“I wouldn’t wish the tragic world events of these past few years on any American president, but I’m so grateful that Joe is our president during these uncertain, unpredictable and tumultuous times,” the first lady said.

She said her husband wakes up every morning thinking about the American people, whereas former president Donald Trump “wakes up every morning caring about one person and one person only himself.”

She wrapped up her remarks by urging people to fight for a Biden reelection, saying Americans’ rights and democracy are at stake.

“This election is going to take all of us,” she said. “So I’m looking forward to working with all of you because we are going to win.”

“Through the highs and lows of our country and this world – a pandemic, an assault on our capital, a war – he is that same steady leader, the faithful warrior, battling for the soul of our nation,” she said.

Biden spoke at fundraisers Thursday in Portland, Oregon, and Kentfield, a San Francisco suburb in Marin County. (With CNS report)