The Washington Post published a donor list for Trump's ballroom on October 16, naming previously undisclosed contributors who benefited from regulatory decisions, government contracts and, in one case, a pardon. Julio Herrera Velutini, an international banker indicted in 2022 over financing a Puerto Rico governor's campaign, received a pardon. Marc Benioff committed $1 million the day after Trump thanked him for a Time magazine cover, and asked to stay anonymous. Reporting since then has established that about half the donors also received federal contracts during Trump's second term. The discussion centers on the overlap between giving and contracting, and on the timing of the Benioff gift and its anonymity request.