The benefits have flowed from Trump’s businesses and campaign committees, according to a 
ProPublica analysis of public disclosures, court records and securities filings. One campaign aide 
had his average monthly pay double, from $26,000 to $53,500. Another employee got a $2 million 
severance package barring him from voluntarily cooperating with law enforcement. And one of the 
campaign’s top officials had her daughter hired onto the campaign staff, where she is now the 
fourth-highest-paid employee.
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One witness has said publicly that, when he quit working for Trump in the midst of the classified
documents criminal investigation, he was offered golf tournament tickets, a lawyer paid for by 
Trump and a new job that would have come with a raise. The witness, a valet and manager at Mar-a-Lago, 
had direct knowledge of the handling of the government documents at the club

A couple weeks later, the Georgia grand jury handed down an indictment accusing Trump of racketeering 
as part of a plot to overturn the election results in the state. From November 2022 to August 2023,
the Trump campaign had paid Epshteyn’s company an average of $26,000 per month. The month after 
the indictments, his pay hit a new high, $50,000, and climbed in October to $53,500 per month,
 where it has remained ever since.
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Trump campaign head Susie Wiles, a Florida political consultant, was present when Trump allegedly 
went beyond improperly holding onto classified documents and showed them to people lacking proper 
security clearances. … That June, Right Coast Strategies, the political consulting firm Wiles 
founded, received its highest-ever monthly payment from the Trump campaign: $75,000, an amount the 
firm has equaled only once since.

A few months later, the Wiles family got more good news. Wiles’ daughter Caroline, who had done 
some work for Trump’s first campaign and in the White House, where she reportedly left one job 
because she didn’t pass a background check, was hired by his campaign. Her salary: $222,000, making 
her currently the fourth-highest-paid staffer.

Margo Martin, a Trump aide who, like Wiles, allegedly witnessed Trump showing off what he described 
as a secret military document, got a significant raise not long after the classified documents case 
heated up with the search at Mar-a-Lago.
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In August 2021, a month after the congressional investigation began, securities filings show that 
the parent company behind Truth Social, Trump’s social media company, gave Scavino a consulting 
deal that ultimately paid out $240,000 a year. Scavino was also granted a $600,000 retention bonus 
and a $4 million “executive promissory note” paid in shares, according to SEC filings. The 
company’s public filings do not make clear when these deals were put in place.
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When Atlanta attorney Jennifer Little was hired to represent Trump in his Georgia election 
interference case, it marked the high point of her career. A former local prosecutor who started 
her own practice, she had previously taken on far more modest cases. Highlights on her website 
include a biker who fell because of a pothole, a child investigated for insensitive social media 
comments and drunk drivers with “DUI’s as high as .19.”

Just after Little was forced to testify before the grand jury in March 2023, a Trump political 
action committee paid her $218,000, by far the largest payment she’d received while working for 
Trump. In the year after she became a witness, she has made at least $1.3 million from the Trump 
political committee