Large corporations routinely finance both parties' national conventions; the fact that several like Walmart and Coca-Cola are pulling their funds because they don't like the nominee is unusual.<p>I can't seem to find any information about how the Democratic convention is being funded this year, but in 2012 they specifically rejected corporate funding [0]. Not sure if that was a one-time thing or meant to be an enduring policy.<p>Also, boo on Forbes for calling it "Trump's Republican National Convention" in the headline. It's run by the party, not the candidate, and there's currently a lot of contention between Trump and the convention leadership [1] so calling it his is a little misleading.<p>[0] <a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/no-corporate-money-for-2012-democratic-convention/" rel="nofollow">http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/no-corporate-m...</a>
[1] <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/09/us/politics/donald-trumps-warning-to-paul-ryan-signals-further-gop-discord.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/09/us/politics/donald-trumps-...</a>
Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11659565" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11659565</a>
This seems a bit strange, from a company that until now seemed to be very much against Trump and hoping he'd fail in his bid to become the nominee.