According to SFGATE, relatives of California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wife will host a fundraiser for President Trump in California.

Gavin Newsom relatives to hold Bay Area fundraiser for Trump https://t.co/zPH5JafHcy

— SFGATE (@SFGate) September 6, 2024

“Former President Trump is scheduled to return to California next week for a pair of high-dollar fundraisers, one notably hosted by relatives of the wife of Gov. Gavin Newsom,” the Los Angeles Times noted.

Tickets for the fundraiser, hosted by Tom and Stacey Siebel, are going for as much as $500,000 per couple.

BREAKING:

Gavin Newsom relatives to hold Bay Area fundraiser for Trump

The tickets for next week’s fundraiser, hosted by Tom and Stacey Siebel, are going for as much as $500,000 per couple, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Pass it on to everyone

— Omar Navarro (@RealOmarNavarro) September 8, 2024

SFGATE reports:

Tom, a software developer, is a second cousin once removed of the governor’s wife, meaning the two are separated by one generation.

So yes, it’s a distant, in-law relation for Newsom. Still, the fact that Newsom is related at all to a couple who wants to see Trump back in the White House might raise some eyebrows. But this isn’t the first time that the family of Jennifer Siebel Newsom has made news for their political leanings.

Her parents moved to Florida in 2020, and her father, Ken Siebel, registered as a Republican in that state. A trust connected to the Seibel family also made a $5,000 donation in 2022 to a political action committee supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, one of Newsom’s most bitter political rivals.

Tom Siebel has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, the Los Angeles Times noted.

Gavin Newsom’s wife’s cousins are hosting one of the fundraisers for Donald Trump in California next week.

It must be so embarrassing that a number of his wife’s relatives don’t even like him. pic.twitter.com/vsR2rOdDcR

— Max Bonilla (@outragedteen_) September 7, 2024

From the Los Angeles Times:

Trump will also headline an evening fundraiser in Los Angeles on Sept. 12, with top tickets going for $250,000 per person. The location and hosts have not been revealed.

The gatherings take place at a critical moment in the campaign, in the window between the first debate between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, on Tuesday, and Sept. 18, when Trump is scheduled to be sentenced for his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal that may have influenced the outcome of the 2016 election.

The events also occur in the aftermath of fundraising disclosures that show Harris with a gaping fundraising lead over Trump since she became the Democratic candidate after President Biden announced he would not seek reelection. The Democratic nominee’s campaign announced Friday that she and running mate Tim Walz and their allied committees raised $361 million in August, the most in the current electoral cycle, and had $404 million cash on hand.

Republicans announced Wednesday that Trump, running mate JD Vance and allied committees raised $130 million in August, with $295 million in the bank.