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# Trump Media Made Deal Involving GOP Donor James E. Davison
- URL: https://werd.io/trump-media-made-deal-involving-gop-donor-james-e-davison/
- Published: 2024-07-30T15:45:54.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-30T15:45:54.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Notable links, #Import 2025-06-11 21:47

\[[Justin Elliott, Robert Faturechi and Alex Mierjeski at ProPublica](https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-media-truth-social-jedtec-james-davison-conflict-of-interest)\]

The majority of Donald Trump's net worth is wrapped up in Truth Social's parent company Trump Media & Technology Group. If he's elected, its deals and ownership structure will present conflicts of interests - illustrated by this ProPublica investigation into its streaming TV deal:

> "The deal announced by Trump Media involves a series of largely unknown small players. Trump Media’s disclosures about the deal describe a nesting doll of companies that leave many questions unanswered about its new business partners."  
>  
> "The sellers include a pair of Louisiana companies: \[major Republican donor James E.\] Davison’s JedTec LLC along with another called WorldConnect IPTV Solutions."

JedTec's issues are relatively straightforward. For me, the bigger mystery surrounds WorldConnect IPTV, which seems to be acting as a wrapper around a UK streaming company called [Perception Group](https://www.perception.tv/). In turn, Perception's servers seem to be colocated with [Hurricane Electric](https://he.net/), a backbone provider based in Fremont.

Perception seems like a bit of a mystery operation in itself: there's very little information on its website that really illuminates if there's any new technology here at all. WorldConnect, meanwhile, seems to have spent many of its early years helping right-wing Christian TV stations reach audiences across the UK's Freeview over-the-air digital TV service and the internet at large.

It's all super-strange. There's definitely more to discover.

[#Democracy](https://werd.io/tag/Democracy)

\[[Link](https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-media-truth-social-jedtec-james-davison-conflict-of-interest)\]