D.C. Memo: Comcast to Sen. Warren – White House Ballroom Donation On the Level
'... That the donation has anything to do with a potential transaction involving Warner Brothers Discovery is categorically false,’ said Comcast outside counsel Michael Bopp at Gibson Dunn
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Ballroom: Comcast rejected suggestions it may have engaged in misconduct by donating to the new $400 million ballroom under construction at the Trump White House. Comcast was responding to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who asked the media and Internet company if there had been a quid pro quo. “Comcast’s pledged donation included no specific limitations or conditions on how the proceeds were to be used or spent. Furthermore, Comcast made the donation with no expectations of receiving anything in return and the implication that the donation has anything to do with a potential transaction involving Warner Brothers Discovery is categorically false,” said Comcast outside counsel Michael Bopp at Gibson Dunn in a Dec. 15, 2025, letter that Warren released Monday. Bopp’s letter − which did not disclose the dollar amount of the donation − noted Comcast’s long history “in promoting the vibrant civic life of the nation’s capital as well as a wide variety of Washington institutions,” mentioning by name the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino, the D.C. Public Library Foundation, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Catholic Charities D.C., the Trump Vance Inaugural Committee, and the Biden Inaugural Committee. (More after paywall.)
