More than 80 percent of the campaign contributions Donald Trump’s national finance director has made since 1998 have gone to Democratic politicians, according to a Washington Examiner analysis of Federal Election Commission records.
Trump appointed Dune Capital Management CEO Steven Mnuchin to head his campaign’s fundraising operation on Thursday, as he begins to prepare for the general election now that he’s been named the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
But Mnuchin’s extensive history of considerable campaign contributions suggests the Wall Street veteran is more interested in getting Democrats elected than Republicans.
FEC records show that over the course of 18 years, beginning with a $500 donation to Democrat Chuck Schumer’s Senate campaign in 1998, Mnuchin has made $68,300 in campaign contributions.
Eighty-five percent, or $57,800 of which has gone to Democratic candidates in gubernatorial, senatorial and presidential races.
Among the Democratic candidates Trump’s finance chairman has contributed to: President Obama ($4,300); former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ($8,200); former Democratic presidential nominees John Kerry ($500) and Al Gore ($1,000); former Democratic Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards ($4,100); former Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu ($2,300); New York Sen. Chuck Schumer ($2,500) and former New Jersey congressional candidate Michael Wildes ($11,500).
Mnuchin also contributed $10,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 2004.
With the exception of Wildes, Mnuchin began shifting his contributions strictly to Republican candidates after Obama was elected in 2008.
The former Goldman Sachs board member contributed $2,500 to the presidential campaign of former Republican nominee Mitt Romney in 2011, and $1,000 to former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty in 2011.
Trump himself was frequenrly criticized by his Republican opponents for making contributions to Clinton’s Senate campaign in addition to donating more than $100,000 to her philanthropic organization, the Clinton Foundation.
“Donald Trump has consistently financed the campaigns of some of the most liberal politicians in the country,” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz , who suspended his campaign earlier this week, said in an ad released last month.
Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks did not return the Examiner’s request for comment.
