Donald Trump Jr.
Donald Trump Jr. is a businessman, an executive vice president of The Trump Organization and a partner at the investment firm 1789 Capital. He holds no government office. Entries naming him record commercial dealings that intersect with federal action, which is why they sit in self-dealing and monetizing-office categories.
2026 Events (3)
CNN investigation reveals Trump Jr.'s 1789 Capital invested in companies that received billions in federal contracts
A CNN investigation published July 20, 2026 found that Donald Trump Jr.'s investment firm 1789 Capital made investments in companies that subsequently received substantial federal contracts and favorable regulatory treatment from the Trump administration. A separate investigation by The Independent, published July 22, corroborated the pattern, describing 1789 Capital's investments as systematically positioned to benefit from administration policy decisions on tariffs, energy deregulation, and defense contracting. Representatives Jason Crow and Senator Elizabeth Warren had sent a June 2 letter to federal agencies demanding answers about federal contracts benefiting Trump family members.
Reliance invested over $100 million in a Texas refinery secretly backed by Donald Trump Jr.
ProPublica reported that Reliance Industries, the energy conglomerate of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani, invested at least $100 million in America First Refining, an obscure Texas startup secretly backed by Donald Trump Jr. The investment followed months of Trump-administration tariff pressure on the Ambani empire and coincided with major U.S. policy wins for Reliance, including a February trade deal that lowered tariffs and a license to buy Venezuelan oil. The startup's representatives reportedly told foreign officials that investing would open doors at the White House.
President Trump and his sons sued the IRS and Treasury for $10 billion over a tax-return leak
On January 29, 2026, President Donald Trump, his two adult sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization filed suit in federal court in Florida against the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department, seeking at least $10 billion in damages over the 2019 leak of Trump's tax returns. The complaint attributes legal responsibility to the IRS for the conduct of Charles Littlejohn, a Booz Allen Hamilton contractor with staff-like access to taxpayer records who was sentenced to five years in prison in 2024 for disclosing thousands of returns, including Trump's, to news organizations. Trump filed in his personal capacity; as the sitting president he also heads the executive branch whose Department of Justice is responsible for defending the federal agencies named as defendants.