CORP/BIZ Trump Media's merger with DWAC gets regulatory nod. Trump could get a stake worth $4 billion.

Cacheman

Ultra MAGA!
When the corrupted New York marxists are celebrating $364 Million (that they'll never see) Donald Trump looks like he's celebrating $4 Billion from the Truth Social merger.

Trump always has the last laugh...


Trump Media's merger with DWAC gets regulatory nod. Trump could get a stake worth $4 billion.​


Aimee Picchi

4–5 minutes

The funding partner for Trump Media & Technology Group said it has received regulatory approval from securities regulators that will allow it to proceed with a long-delayed merger. The combination could provide former President Donald Trump with a stake worth almost $4 billion.

Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC), a so-called special-purpose acquisition company, said Thursday in a statement that the Securities and Exchange Commission had signed off on its proposed merger with Trump Media. DWAC said it plans to announce within two days a date for shareholders to vote on the deal.

The SEC said it doesn't comment on individual issuers.


Clearing this regulatory hurdle amounts to a major win for Trump and his media business, which runs the conservative-leaning Truth Social platform. The merger has been in the works since October 2021, but had stalled because of regulatory concerns and other roadblocks.

The plan has been for DWAC to merge with Trump Media, providing the former president's fledgling business with capital to expand its operations. But as the merger process dragged on, DWAC returned hundreds of millions of financing commitments to investors.


If the merger is completed, Trump would own nearly 79 million shares in the new business, or as much as 69% of the combined company, a DWAC filing shows. That stake could be worth as much as $3.95 billion based on DWAC's stock price on Thursday.

On Friday, the former president faced a major setback when the judge in his civil fraud trial banned Trump for three years from running the New York-based company that for decades has served as the hub of his global business empire. Trump and The Trump Organization were also ordered to pay penalties of $354 million in what is one of the stiffest corporate sanctions in New York history.

Shares of DWAC fell 4% on Friday.

"Moving forward, we aim to accelerate our work to build a free speech highway outside the stifling stranglehold of Big Tech," said Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes, a former Republican House member, in the statement accompanying DWAC's announcement about securing SEC approval to move forward with the deal.


For the first nine months of 2023, Trump Media had revenue of $3.4 million, up from $237,000 in the year-ago period.

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Dobbin

Faithful Steed
Boy it's tripled since Jan.1--probably still has legs with more than eight months until the election.
And you just know that some Marxist will do something.

I.e. protest on DEI basis.

Accuse Trump of Monopoly and hold this up for years in the SEC.

Transfer of funding will be held up for years pending "regulatory approval."

ANYTHING to trash Trump.

Dobbin
 

Kathy in FL

Administrator
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Trump does not appear to any longer need NY/NYC. I suspect someone is screaming hissy fits when they realized NYC does not have the world revolving around it and nothing they do to Trump does anything but boomerang and hurt the finances of NYC.
 

tnphil

Don't screw with an engineer
Trump does not appear to any longer need NY/NYC. I suspect someone is screaming hissy fits when they realized NYC does not have the world revolving around it and nothing they do to Trump does anything but boomerang and hurt the finances of NYC.
We had neighbors from NY state. They said much of the state was not a liberal hell-hole like NYC. But they were shocked moving to middle-TN where people could park in the grass in their own yard and not get fined.

I have co-workers living in NYC. Biggest bleeding-heart liberals I've ever seen. They literally panic about "climate change". They eat up every word that the media spews.

I hope Trump pulls everything out and screws them. With no lube.
 

Griz3752

Retired, practising Curmudgeon
We had neighbors from NY state. They said much of the state was not a liberal hell-hole like NYC. But they were shocked moving to middle-TN where people could park in the grass in their own yard and not get fined.

I have co-workers living in NYC. Biggest bleeding-heart liberals I've ever seen. They literally panic about "climate change". They eat up every word that the media spews.

I hope Trump pulls everything out and screws them. With no lube.
Turnabout is fairplay.
NYS has been trying to hump him for a long tme and NYC really got pissy when he formally moved to FL....

Looks good on them.
 

energy_wave

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Trump does not appear to any longer need NY/NYC. I suspect someone is screaming hissy fits when they realized NYC does not have the world revolving around it and nothing they do to Trump does anything but boomerang and hurt the finances of NYC.
Trump will just write off his NYC assets using the tax code and make out just fine. Losses offset gains. Taxes owed = Zero.
 
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