Trump To Appear At Private Fundraiser On The Jersey Shore This Weekend

DEAL, NJ — President Donald Trump is scheduled to attend a fundraiser in Deal this Sunday.

This was first reported by the Asbury Park Press, but the invitation to the event can be found here on YouTube.

The last time Trump was on the Jersey Shore was in May, when he held a rally in Wildwood that the Associated Press reported drew 80,000 to 100,000 people. This past weekend, Gov. Phil Murphy reportedly met Trump at Trump's Bedminster golf club; Murphy said the meeting was to wish Trump well as he recovers from the assassination attempt.

Sunday's event will be a private fundraising dinner; the invitation does not say where exactly it will be held. Guests are asked to RSVP to t47events@gop.com. At minimum, tickets are $3,300 to attend and VIP tickets are $10,000. A photo with Trump is $50,000 per person; a seat at his dinner table is $150,000, the Press reports.

Deal Police said they cannot comment on whether there will be any road closures or extra security measures in place this Sunday. That is all coordinated by the Secret Service.

According to the invitation, the fundraiser is hosted by Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn and his wife Andrea; Midtown Equities owner, record producer and reported billionaire Joe Cayre, as well as the Chera family.

To be named as a host, donors had to contribute at least $500,000 to the Trump 2024 re-election campaign.

Stanley Chera was a New York City real estate tycoon and personal friend of Trump's; Chera died of complications from coronavirus in 2020. Before his death, Chera and his wife hosted Trump multiple times for fundraisers at their private home in Deal; Chera first held a fundraiser for Trump at his Deal home in 2016.

Deal is a wealthy seaside town just south of Long Branch. Deal and Elberon have long been Syrian Jewish enclaves; Chera and Cayre are both of Syrian Jewish descent.

The video advertising the invitation states Trump is "a great friend to Israel."

There are also many notable names listed as co-hosts: Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) will be there; she led the Congressional hearings this spring that led to the resignation of the presidents of Penn and Harvard for their handling of the anti-Israel protests on their campus.

Grocery store billionaire John Catsimatidis will also be there; he founded and owns Gristedes and D'Agostino supermarkets in Manhattan, as will real estate investor Steve Witkoff and former New York Congressman Lee Zeldin, the Republican who unsuccessfully ran for governor of New York in 2022, losing to sitting Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat.

Both Witkoff and Zeldin spoke for Trump at the recent Republican National Convention.

And finally, rounding out the long list of co-hosts is famed Long Branch developer Charles Kushner and his wife Cheryl.

Kushner's son is Jared Kushner, married to Trump's daughter, Ivanka, who converted to Judaism to marry him. Kushner famously served 14 months in federal prison in 2005 after he was convicted of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion and witness tampering in a prosecution led by then-U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Chris Christie.

During his presidency, Trump pardoned Kushner.

Jared Kushner was one of his father-in-law's top advisors in the White House, particularly on Israel.

Here is the invitation for Sunday's fundraiser:

Charlie Kushner's daughter, Nicole Kushner Meyer, is now president of his real estate empire and Kushner Cos. is getting active again on the Jersey Shore, tearing down Monmouth Mall and turning it into town homes, and building 299 luxury apartments on Lower Broadway in Long Branch.

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