On July 9, 2019, Bustatroll website published an article positing that Walmart was giving 50% of its profits to President Trump's 2020 campaign:
Walmart Gives 50% of Profits To Trump 2020 Campaign
Walmart USA and its founders, the Walton family, have taken a cue from Home Depot and will do their part to ensure the continued presidency of Donald Jebidiah Trump. In an explosive announcement today, Walmart CEO, Jim Walton, pledged half of the company’s profits to the President’s re-election. More specifically, he said, they will donate “half the company’s service profits from a sixty-fourth of one quarter of a sixteenth of quarter two’s first ninety-sixth period of fiscal 2019″……..to the Trump 2020 campaign.
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While this article was originally published in 2019, it was recirculated during the COVID-19 coronavirus disease pandemic in April 2020, during which some social media users alleged Walmart was trying to curry favor with the president in his response to the crisis.
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