I hear the Rickets [sic] family, who own the Chicago Cubs, are secretly spending $’s against me. They better be careful, they have a lot to hide! — Trump, March 2016.

The Ricketts, led by patriarch Joe, founder of online trading hub TD Ameritrade, has long put their money to work in belt-tightening initiatives like “Ending Spending, Inc.” and massive donations to the Republican Party — the old version. In the primaries, Joe and his wife Marlene gave $5.5 million to the anti-Trump PAC Our Principles and earned themselves an angry Trump tweet.

Joe’s son Todd, co-owner of the Chicago Cubs and Gary Johnson donor, is now Trump’s deputy commerce secretary.