Trump’s Truth Social Dealt Serious Financing Setback

The blank-check acquisition firm that agreed to merge with Donald Trump’s social media company failed to secure enough shareholder support for a one-year extension to complete the deal, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.

At stake is a $1.3 billion cash infusion that Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), which operates the former president’s Truth Social app, stands to receive from Digital World Acquisition, the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) that inked a deal last October to take TMTG public.

The transaction has been on ice amid civil and criminal probes into the circumstances around the deal. Digital World had been hoping that the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is reviewing its disclosures on the deal, would have given its blessing by now for the transaction to proceed.