Donald Trump Jr’s Private DC Club Has Mysterious Ties to an Ex-Cop With a Controversial Past

When the Executive Branch soft-launched successful Washington, DC, past spring, the backstage club’s archetypal buzz centered connected its starry roster of backers and founding members. The president’s eldest lad Donald Trump Jr. is 1 of the club's respective co-owners, according to erstwhile reporting. Founding members reportedly see Trump medication AI czar David Sacks and his All-In podcast cohost Chamath Palihapitiya, arsenic good arsenic crypto bigwigs Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss.

“We wanted to make thing new, hipper, and Trump-aligned,” Sacks said astatine the time. Proximity to Trumpworld didn’t travel cheap; though the nine office is located successful a basement abstraction down a buying complex, fees to articulation are reportedly arsenic precocious arsenic $500,000.

The archetypal question of property for the MAGA hotspot identified Trump Jr. and his concern associates Omeed Malik, Chris Buskirk, and Zach and Alex Witkoff arsenic the club’s co-owners. A Mother Jones study aboriginal revealed the engagement of David Sacks’ predominant concern subordinate Glenn Gilmore, a Bay Area existent property developer who is fixed a assortment of titles connected authoritative documents, including co-owner, managing member, director, and president.

But according to firm filings reviewed by WIRED, there’s different cardinal fig whose engagement has not been antecedently reported, and whose transportation to its much celebrated founders remains unclear: Sean LoJacono, a erstwhile Metropolitan Police Department bull successful Washington, D.C. who gained section notoriety for his relation successful a halt and frisk that resulted successful a lawsuit.

According to the ineligible complaint, successful 2017, aft questioning a antheral named M.B. Cottingham for a suspected unfastened instrumentality instrumentality violation, LoJacono conducted a assemblage search. A signaling of the incidental went viral connected YouTube, sparking aggravated statement implicit assertive policing tactics. “He stuck his digit successful my crack,” Cottingham says successful the video. “Stop fingering me, though, bro.” The adjacent year, the American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia sued LoJacono connected behalf of Cottingham, alleging that LoJacono had “jammed his fingers betwixt Mr. Cottingham’s buttocks and grabbed his genitals.” Cottingham agreed to settee his suit with LoJacono and was paid an undisclosed magnitude by the District of Columbia (which admitted nary wrongdoing) successful 2018.

The MPD announced its volition to disregard LoJacono pursuing an interior affairs investigation, which concluded that the Cottingham hunt was not a fireable offense, but that different hunt helium had conducted the aforesaid time was. By aboriginal 2019, LoJacono had appealed his dismissal, arguing successful well-publicized hearings that helium had conducted searches according to however helium had been taught by chap officers successful the field. Initially, the dismissal was upheld. However, the constabulary union’s corporate bargaining statement enabled LoJacono to further entreaty to a third-party arbitrator, which successful November 2023 ruled successful LoJacono’s favor.

Instead of returning to the constabulary force, though, LoJacono has gone down a antithetic path. A LinkedIn relationship featuring LoJacono’s name, likeness, and employment past lists his assemblage arsenic “Director of Security and Facilities Management” astatine an unnamed backstage nine successful Washington, DC from June 2025 to the present. Official incorporation paperwork for the Executive Branch Limited Liability Company filed to the Government of the District of Columbia’s corporations part successful March 2025, soon earlier the nine launched, lists LoJacono arsenic the “beneficial owner” of the business. The code listed connected the paperwork matches the Executive Branch’s location. Donald Trump Jr. and different reported owners are not listed connected the paperwork; Gilmore is listed connected this papers arsenic the company’s “organizer.”

The paperwork indicates that LoJacono is considered a beneficial proprietor of a ineligible entity associated with the Executive Branch. But what does that mean, exactly?