Organizations

National law firm where Christopher Kise was a partner before leaving to represent Trump in the classified documents case and other matters. The firm is a major national practice with offices across the country. Kise's departure to represent Trump, reportedly for a $3 million retainer, highlighted the financial incentives and reputation risks for attorneys representing the former president.

Small litigation boutique founded by Alina Habba that has served as Trump's primary civil litigation counsel since 2021. The firm handled the E. Jean Carroll defamation cases (resulting in $88.3 million in judgments against Trump) and the Trump Organization civil fraud trial (resulting in $355 million judgment). The firm has been criticized for courtroom performance and has been described as loyalist rather than independent counsel.

New York-based litigation firm founded by Robert Costello that represented Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon. The firm sued Giuliani for $1.36 million in unpaid legal fees, winning judgment in September 2025. They also successfully sued Bannon for $500,000 in unpaid fees. The firm specializes in representing high-profile clients in complex litigation and criminal matters.

Major Southwestern law firm founded in 1938 that represented the Trump campaign in Arizona election litigation in November 2020. The firm withdrew from election cases citing ethical concerns about the lack of evidence for fraud claims. Their withdrawal, along with Porter Wright's, contributed to the Trump legal team's difficulties in finding counsel willing to challenge election results.

Regional law firm founded in 1846 that withdrew from representing the Trump campaign in Pennsylvania election challenges on November 13, 2020. The firm faced internal and external pressure regarding the ethical implications of challenging election results without evidence. Their withdrawal left the Trump campaign scrambling for counsel and was part of a pattern of firms abandoning election challenges. Several lawyers departed from the firm following the controversy.

Litigation boutique founded by Marc Kasowitz, longtime Trump attorney. The firm represented Trump during the initial phase of the Russia investigation (2017) and has handled various civil matters for him over decades. Known for aggressive litigation tactics and high associate turnover. The firm charged $1,500/hour for Trump representation and was paid through RNC legal expense funds.

Perplexity AI is a San Francisco-based AI search engine founded in 2022 by Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, and Andy Konwinski. By late 2025, the company was valued at $18 billion in early-stage funding talks (CNBC, March 2025), up from $9 billion in December 2024, and was generating just under $100 million in annualized revenue. In January 2025 the company made an unsolicited $65 billion merger proposal for TikTok's U.S. business (later withdrawn). Perplexity became a fixture of the Trump-administration policy ecosystem in 2025-2026, and the company is widely reported to have raised additional capital in 2026 amid intensifying competition with OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.

AI Financial Corp. (formerly ALT5 Sigma Corporation, NASDAQ: ALTS / AIFC) is a Las Vegas-based fintech and digital-asset treasury company. Originally a recycling business and later a biotech firm (JanOne), the company pivoted to crypto payments and exchange services in 2024 via the "ALT5 Pay" and "ALT5 Prime" platforms. In August 2025, ALT5 closed a $1.5 billion registered direct offering and concurrent private placement with World Liberty Financial (WLFI) to acquire ~7.3 billion WLFI tokens, making it a digital-asset treasury for the Trump family-backed crypto venture. Zach Witkoff (World Liberty's co-founder and CEO) became chairman; Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. were originally nominated to the board but withdrew after Nasdaq flagged Eric Trump as non-independent. In April 2026 the company rebranded as AI Financial Corp. (ticker AIFC). Its share price has fallen more than 90% since the August 2025 deal, and the company's May 2026 SEC filing included a "going concern" warning.

The Shield of the Americas is a Trump-administration Western Hemisphere security initiative announced in Doral, Florida, in March 2026, alongside the firing of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. The initiative is a regional counter-narcotics and migration cooperation compact with partner Latin American governments; Noem was named Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas in conjunction with the announcement. The compact was formally launched in early 2026 with the participation of multiple Latin American heads of state.

American Bitcoin is a Bitcoin mining and treasury company co-founded in 2025 by the Trump family (Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump) and Hut 8. The company went public via merger with Gryphon Digital Mining in 2025 and is part of the Trump family's broader crypto / Bitcoin strategy. It is distinct from Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) but pursues a similar BTC-treasury model.

Truth.Fi is a fintech subsidiary of Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT), launched in early 2025 to manage investment products including cryptocurrency and exchange-traded funds. The unit is chaired by Devin Nunes and is part of TMTG's diversification beyond the Truth Social platform; it holds a portion of the company's Bitcoin reserves.

TAE Technologies (formerly Tri Alpha Energy) is a California-based fusion-energy company founded in 1998 by Norman Rostoker. In late 2025, Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT) announced an all-stock merger with TAE Technologies to pivot from social media to a fusion-energy / Bitcoin-treasury hybrid entity. The deal was abandoned in early 2026, and TMTG retained Truth Social and its digital-asset strategy.

Qatari Diar is a Qatari state-owned real-estate investment company that partnered with The Trump Organization in April 2025 to develop a $3 billion luxury beachfront golf resort in Qatar. The deal coincided with President Trump's May 2025 Gulf state visit and has drawn "emoluments clause" criticism.

Kinhbac City is a Vietnamese real-estate developer that has partnered with The Trump Organization on a $1.5 billion golf, hotel, and residential project near Hanoi covering 990 hectares. The project was approved by Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha in May 2025. The first two courses are expected to open by mid-2027.