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'Bribery' accusations fly as senators home in on Trump's 250th birthday fund

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Senate Democrats are demanding a full accounting of President Donald Trump's Freedom 250 organization, accusing the group of running a "pay-to-play" operation that showered corporate donors with lucrative federal contracts. In a letter sent Sunday night to Freedom 250 CEO Keith Krach, a group of senators led by Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Adam Schiff of California demanded the group disclose how much money it has collected from businesses and individuals, and whether donations bought special treatment from the federal government, reported MS NOW . "The lack of transparency in these donations makes it difficult for the public to determine whether donors may have received any favors or special treatment in exchange for their donations," the senators wrote, asking directly whether the administration was "concealing potential pay-to-play politics or even outright bribery." Freedom 250, billed by the White House as a "public-private partnership" organizing the nation's semiquincen

First report: Senators demand Trump’s Freedom 250 group disclose corporate donors — msnbc.com, 1d