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Trump to attend fundraiser in Newport Beach on Sunday

The Trump event will be at the home of tech executive Palmer Luckey.
The Trump event will be at the home of tech executive Palmer Luckey.
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President Trump is scheduled to attend a private fundraiser Sunday in Newport Beach.

Tickets for the event at the home of tech executive Palmer Luckey range from $2,800 for an individual admission to $150,000 for a couple to attend and take a photo with the president, according to the invitation. Ric Grenell, Trump’s former acting director of national intelligence, is expected to be a special guest.

SANTA ANA, CA - OCTOBER 18: President Donald Trump greets supporters as he arrives on Air Force One at John Wayne Airport on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2020 in Santa Ana, where he will be attending a fundraiser at the home of Palmer Luckey on Lido Island in Newport Beach. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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Few other details were released. Luckey co-founded the Oculus Rift virtual-reality system. His company sold for an estimated $3 billion to Facebook in 2014.

Trump was hospitalized this month with COVID-19 but has been traveling to campaign events for some time now, to the concern of some medical specialists. The president said he is now free of coronavirus.

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Heather Rangel, a spokeswoman for the Newport Police Department, declined to give any information about the president’s visit or about any road closures planned in advance of the trip. Protesters are expected.

City News Service contributed to this report.

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Anh Do

Anh Do, deputy editor for culture and talent, helps manage our internship, fellowship, recruitment and training programs. Before this job, she worked as community engagement editor, and as Metro reporter covering Asian American issues and general assignments for 11 years. Do has reported for the Seattle Times, the Orange County Register and Nguoi Viet Daily News, the largest Vietnamese publication in the U.S. Born in Saigon, she is a graduate of USC with degrees in journalism and English. Her writing on culture and trauma has won awards from Columbia University and AAJA and she received Yale’s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism. In 2016, she was part of the Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attacks, and in 2024, part of the team named a Pulitzer finalist for breaking news coverage of the Monterey Park shootings. Her passion is dog rescue, having volunteered on missions around the globe.

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