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Correction log
- 31 Oct 2026
- Palantir and Anduril orders. Applying the same rule as for GEO Group the day before, we added the 23 Palantir and Anduril orders of $20 million or more signed since Election Day that were missing, $921.7 million obligated in all (15 for Palantir, 8 for Anduril). Each line names the contract it falls under.
- 31 Oct 2026
- Three items now Disclosed. Jeff Miller's and Carlos Trujillo's lobbying-firm revenue for January to September 2026 now cites the firms' own Senate lobbying reports, which add up to $51.31 million and $35,706,760 (we had listed $35.71 million, Punchbowl News's rounding). Eric Trump's American Bitcoin stake now cites his own SEC filing (Schedule 13D) showing the 68,147,664 shares issued to him; its value is still Bloomberg's estimate at the debut price, marked as an estimate.
- 30 Oct 2026
- GEO Group orders. We had listed GEO Group orders only under contracts signed after Election Day 2024, although our rule, and our lines for other companies, count every award signed since then. We added the 14 GEO orders of $20 million or more signed since Election Day under older contracts, $900.6 million obligated in all, for detention centers GEO already ran, such as Adelanto in California and the Montgomery Processing Center in Houston. Each line names the older contract. The methodology now states the rule explicitly.
- 30 Oct 2026
- Palmer Luckey, Army headset prototypes. This award was marked Reported because it cited news coverage only. It now cites Anduril's own announcement of the $159 million award, and is marked Disclosed, as are other awards announced by the company that received them. No amount is counted, as before.
- 30 Oct 2026
- Jared Kushner, $750 million. At launch we could not trace the report that Kushner received $750 million from an Azerbaijani bank. Its source is Matthew Cole's book Princes and Thieves, which describes a roughly $750 million account at First Abu Dhabi Bank and a roughly $1 billion account moved via Azerbaijan, both dating from 2017. It stays left out because it predates the period we cover; the entry on Checked and left out now cites the book's coverage.
- 26 Oct 2026
- Allegations counted. Items marked Alleged, such as lawsuits and claims reported by a single outlet, are now counted in the default total. They stay marked Alleged everywhere, and the “Alleged” control on the leaderboard leaves them out.
- 26 Oct 2026
- Contracts counted, donors added. Federal awards are now counted in the default total, as company revenue in the same way as lobbying-firm fees, so the headline figure rose by the obligated amount of every Disclosed and Reported award line. We also added five donors and allies whose companies won federal awards: Alex Karp (Palantir), Palmer Luckey (Anduril), Larry Ellison (Oracle), Sam Altman (OpenAI) and George Zoley (GEO Group). Use the “Federal awards” control on the leaderboard to see the total without them.
- 26 Oct 2026
- Government contracts. We now list federal contracts, grants and other awards to companies tied to people on this site, on a new Government contracts page. They are company revenue, not personal income, so they are not in the default total. On Checked and left out, our reason for not counting reported totals of Pentagon contracts to companies backed by Trump's sons now says that we list the individual awards instead.
- 25 Oct 2026
- Review against our own rules. We rechecked every line item against its sources and our methodology. Changes:
- One source, not two. A “Reported” item needs two independent news organizations. Four did not have them, because every other outlet repeated the original report: Eric Trump's American Bitcoin stake (Bloomberg), 1789 Capital's $1.2 billion fund (Axios), Alina Habba's Concord Partners contract (The New York Times) and the ballroom donations (The Washington Post). They are now Alleged and not counted by default until a second outlet confirms them. Donald Trump Jr.'s Kalshi stake, which traces back to one Financial Times report, is Alleged for the same reason.
- Qatari jet. The 747 went to the Air Force. We counted it as a gift because it was slated to pass to Trump's library; in August 2026 Eric Trump said that is “not the plan at the moment.” It is now Alleged and will return to Reported if a transfer to Trump or his library is confirmed. Its value now cites outlets that price this jet, not a new 747-8.
- Settlements. We had one $64.5 million line that was our own sum. It is now four lines, one per settlement, as listed on his financial disclosure. Three of them (ABC, CBS and Meta) were paid to his library foundation, so they are now counted as donations, not personal income.
- Exact figures from the filings: $TRUMP royalties $635,068,835 (was $636 million, the business's total income), Steve Witkoff's distributions $106,938,819 (was $107 million; we also removed a comparison with 2024 that neither source made), Melania Trump's NFT proceeds $6,011,259, and two book royalty lines in place of a rounded $2.4 million.
- Lobbying. New lines for 2026 revenue. Miller Strategies' first-half 2026 line is replaced by a January–September line, and Ballard Partners' $630,000 fee from Bancredito no longer counts separately because it is inside the firm's third-quarter revenue.
- Disclosed items now link the filing itself, with page numbers. Two “Disclosed” fundraising lines whose filing we could not quote directly are now “Reported”.
- 25 Oct 2026
- Donald Trump Jr., wedding celebrations. We had left out reporting that the Russian businessman Umar Kremlev paid for celebrations after Trump Jr.'s wedding, partly because the people involved say Kremlev was repaid. That reason was wrong under our own rules: a denial or a claim of repayment is shown next to the evidence and never decides whether an item is listed. The payments are now an Alleged line item at Verstka's estimate of $170,000, with the repayment claims shown as the response. Alleged items are not counted by default.
- 25 Oct 2026
- Definitions. “Capital raised” now covers funds and firms a person runs or is a partner in, which matches how the 1789 Capital line item was already counted. The homepage now also shows how much of the counted total was paid or given to the people personally, as opposed to fund capital, donations and lobbying-firm revenue.
- 25 Oct 2026
- Donald Trump, World Liberty Financial. We had counted $236.25 million in World Liberty token-sale proceeds, the cash line of his 2025 financial disclosure. The same disclosure lists further proceeds paid in cryptocurrency, and a federal lawsuit states the 2025 total as $526,810,321. The line item now uses that total. We also corrected two related lines to the exact disclosed amounts and identified the buyer behind them.
- 25 Oct 2026
- Jared Kushner. We had counted $5 billion as new Gulf capital raised by Affinity Partners. The New Yorker, the original source, reported that Kushner was raising that money, not that it had been raised, and Kushner says he has raised no new funds since the 2024 election. The line item now describes the fundraising effort and counts no amount, which moves Kushner from first place to the bottom of the default ranking.
- 25 Oct 2026
- Launch. A widely shared report that Jared Kushner received $750 million from an Azerbaijani bank could not be traced to a primary source and was not added. See Checked and left out.