President Trump courted deep-pocketed donors in his native New York City for the first time in months Thursday evening at a campaign fundraiser at Wall Street bigwig Howard Lutnick’s upscale Manhattan home, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the private event, said guests were supposed to spill into Lutnick’s place around 6 p.m.
Trump landed at John F. Kennedy airport at 5:40 p.m. and participated in a roundtable discussion with supporters at an undisclosed location before arriving at Lutnick’s luxe pad around 7 p.m., according to the source and a public schedule put out by the White House.
The White House schedule did not include Lutnick’s name and Trump’s 2020 campaign declined to comment.
But the source said the fundraiser took place at one of Lutnick’s flashy homes, either the townhouse he owns on the Upper East Side or his luxurious triplex on top of the Pierre hotel in Midtown.
A representative for Lutnick, 57, did not return a request for comment.
Lutnick — who’s worth more than $1.5 billion and serves as the CEO of Wall Street trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald — is an outspoken supporter of Trump and has praised the president’s tax cuts and regulations-slashing economic agenda.
“You had this regulatory overhang of negativity in the past, and now you have a view of positivity in the future,” Lutnick said on CNBC in July 2017. “You’re going to see the financial have a nice bump coming…It’s going to come.”
