New text messages reignite 'MAGA blood feud' over missing millions

Alina Habba attends her swearing-in ceremony as interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 28, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo

On Monday, newly revealed text messages reignited accusations that millions of dollars were stolen amidst a raging “MAGA blood feud.” According to the texts, which were revealed by Axios, one of President Donald Trump’s top advisors appears to have offered a “stunning pay-for-influence offer to a Turkish billionaire.”

"Once the money comes to the company here, I will arrange the donation to Kennedy Centre [sic], and you'll be joining the VIP events and get close with the administration, even with POTUS,” declared a May 2025 text from Ric Grenell, a key Trump advisor who was previously appointed to run the embattled cultural institution. As Axios explains, “Administration officials say the text is a key piece of evidence in the White House's investigation — ordered by President Trump — into whether Grenell abused the president's trust and misappropriated a potential multimillion-dollar donation to the Kennedy Center, which Grenell led at the time. Grenell also served in another Trump-appointed capacity: as special envoy to Venezuela, where Turkish businessman Turhan Mildon also had contracts.”

"We need to make you the 'American face' down in V," Grenell allegedly wrote in the same 2025 text message to Mildon, whose attorneys sent the text, at least one financial document, and other correspondence to the White House counsel's office, according to sources familiar with the investigation. As Axios explains, “Mildon is married to another Trump adviser: former U.S. attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba, who stormed into the Oval Office on Oct. 9 and accused Grenell of hoodwinking her husband into making a Kennedy Center donation that never arrived.” Mildon alleges that at Grenell’s direction, he wired $17.6 million to the latter via a private company, with nearly $6 million slated for donation to the Kennedy Center. A year and a half later, after the business relationship between the two men fell apart, it was found that the money never made it to the center, which in fact reported that Mildon owed it over $200,000.

As one Trumpworld insider told Axios, the situation has erupted into the “ultimate MAGA blood feud.” As the outlet elaborates, “On Oct. 9, when Habba arrived at the White House, she was ‘pretty animated,’ said one administration official, and exclaimed at one point, ‘Ric stole the money!' The problem, however, was that Habba ‘didn't have all her stuff in order. She went in there half-cocked without all the facts yelling about Grenell stealing. And the facts keep changing,’ the source said. ‘That doesn't mean Ric is out of the woods. This looks really shady.’”

After Habba leveled her accusations, Trump called White House Counsel Will Scharf into the Oval Office and asked him to look into the affair. Trump and Scharf then called Grenell, who asserted, "There's no way this is true. This is crazy.” Regardless of Grenell’s claims that the allegations are "lies," according to one administration official, “There's a lot of questions. And POTUS wants answers."

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