MAGA diaspora: We're tracking the 327 most important lobbyists, authors, and consultants in Trump's post-White House influence network
- Insider sought information on the whereabouts of 327 of the most prominent Trump administration alumni.
- Our four-part series of stories includes a comprehensive database tracking key people in their new jobs.
- We also published articles about Trump alumni building new MAGA-minded groups and finding work in Congress.
Donald Trump remains a powerful presence in American politics despite being deplatformed and defenestrated. The same goes for the people who worked for his administration.
That's why Insider embarked over the past several months on a project to track down as many members as possible from Team Trump who served in an official capacity between January 2017 and January 2021.
Some of them you'll surely remember, like ex-White House senior advisors Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon. Others made it through the last few years without becoming household names.
Ultimately, we identified 327 Trump alumni for our comprehensive database. There, we break down who are now the big-shot lawyers, high-powered lobbyists, aspiring authors, and political consultants already busy trying to win elections for MAGA-minded candidates in 2022 and beyond.
Our project also highlights who from the Trump orbit ended up building new political entities aimed at sinking President Joe Biden's agenda and enacting controversial changes to election laws that favor Republicans.
We pinpoint the location of a couple of the biggest names from the Trump Cabinet who were mired in scandals during their time in the administration but now are trying to move on to new jobs. And we've identified the ex-Trump staffers now serving as aides to members of Congress, plus a couple of former administration officials who have become elected officials themselves.
Of course, many Trump aides also are acting as if they don't want to be found at all. At least not yet.
Check out the full Trump alumni database and our additional stories here:
- We mapped the 327 most important lobbyists, authors, and consultants in Trump's post-White House influence network
- Corporations won't employ alumni of Trump's White House so they're building a 'dumb cash' MAGA ecosystem instead
- We tracked down 6 of Trump's most controversial Cabinet members now living their best lives
- Trump alumni are now embedded in the Capitol Hill establishment, keeping the MAGA flame alive