# Executive Branch Club — News Log Rolling chronological record of news developments at the [[Executive Branch Club]], the Washington private club founded in 2025 by [[Donald Trump Jr.]], [[Omeed Malik]] and [[Chris Buskirk]]. Items that change the structural analysis get promoted to [[Executive Branch Club]]. The club matters to this vault for a specific reason: it is the clearest instrument in the second administration for **selling proximity rather than policy**. Membership is a private transaction, so nothing about it is FEC-reportable — which means the money moving through it is invisible to every campaign-finance tracker the KB otherwise relies on, and to the daily midterm-money sweep. A reverse-chronological log built from reporting is the only way to see it. ## Standing Watch Items - **Membership and pricing.** Reported fee tiers, initiation changes, waitlist claims, and any published or leaked member roster. - **Who is in the room.** Administration officials attending, cabinet members, agency heads, and foreign officials or their intermediaries — with attention to anyone with business before the agency they are dining next to. - **Deals sourced at the club.** Contracts, investments and appointments that reporting traces to club introductions. Deal-grade items get carried to the weekly deals proposal rather than built here. - **[[1789 Capital]] adjacency.** Overlap between the club's principals, its members, and the fund's portfolio and LPs. - **Ethics and legal exposure.** Hatch Act questions, gift rules, foreign-agent registration for members who arrange access, and any congressional inquiry or IG referral. - **Imitators and successors.** Competing access venues, satellite clubs in other cities, and franchising. - **Crypto and tech-right membership.** The [[David Sacks]] / [[Chamath Palihapitiya]] cohort and what they are buying access to. ## Prior Coverage Background and structure live on [[Executive Branch Club]]. This log carries dated developments from 2026-09-29 forward. ---