Omeed Malik
Net Worth: Unknown
Who is Omeed Malik?
- Omeed Malik is a Wall Street veteran, and currently president of the investment firms 1789 Capital and Farvahar Partners. He has previously worked in top posts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, MF Global, and the corporate law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.
- In 2018, Malik resigned from Bank of America amidst a sexual misconduct investigation involving a younger coworker. “The young woman, who is employed by Bank of America as an analyst, complained about Mr. Malik within the past several weeks, said the people briefed on the investigation, who were not authorized to speak publicly. The bank then opened an investigation. Officials from human resources interviewed as many as a dozen people who have worked with Mr. Malik. He left roughly two weeks before annual bonuses were to be handed out.” Malik sued Bank of America afterwards, eventually settling out of court for “an undisclosed multimillion-dollar sum.” One of Malik’s attorneys argued “the executive hadn’t engaged in any misconduct and that the firm had suppressed evidence showing the accusations weren’t credible.”
- Malik was the Senior VP of now-defunct commodities brokerage firm MF Global from 2010 to 2012. MF Global went bankrupt amidst financial mismanagement–at the time of its collapse its investments were leveraged at a rate of 40 to one–and high-risk investments in October 2011. The firm was sued by the CFTC in 2013. The CFTC claimed it filed its enforcement action due to “MF Global’s unlawful use of customer funds that harmed thousands of customers and violated fundamental customer protection laws on an unprecedented scale.” MF Global “agreed to settle all charges against it on terms set forth in a proposed order that is subject to court approval and includes 100% restitution of the approximately $1 billion lost by all commodity customers when the firm failed on October 31, 2011.” The firm also had a $100 million penalty levied against it by the CFTC.
- According to The Hill in 2020, Malik joined The Daily Caller, as a “minority investor and contributing editor.” For roughly a year, he hosted a weekly digital program with Daily Caller Senior White House Correspondent Christian Datoc called ‘Wall Street Meets Washington.’”
- Once a Democratic donor, Malik became a major MAGA ally during the COVID pandemic. In a September 2025 interview with the Free Press, Malik explained that switched sides in opposition to the MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) in business spaces, and the lockdowns and vaccine requirements imposed during the COVID pandemic.
- Now, Malik is a major Republican donor, one of Don Jr.’s closest business partners and his employer at 1789 Capital. He is also a personal friend and former fundraiser for RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard.
- Malik co-hosted a major Trump 2024 fundraiser alongside hedge fund billionaire and long-time Trump supporter John Paulson. Malik personally donated over $100,000 to the Trump campaign after Ron DeSantis dropped out.
- Malik supportedKennedy during the 2024 Democratic primaries, and then helped him join Trump’s team after Kennedy dropped out of the presidential race. He claimed he hosted “a “secret meeting at Mar-a-Lago in the middle of August with me, Bobby Kennedy, Donald Trump, Don Jr, who’s my very close friend, Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, and Susie Wiles,” to plan RFK Jr.’s addition to the Trump admin.
- Malik was the largest donor to Tulsi Gabbard’s 2020 presidential run. He has claimed to have been telling Don Jr. about Gabbard’s political value since 2020.
- Malik brought Donald Trump Jr. on to the board of 1789 Capital, his venture capital firm. Though he is no longer present on the website, Blake Masters was initially listed as a member of the board. Masters is a “Peter Thiel protégé known for his ties to the far-right, and has lost two bids for Congress in Arizona.” The firm explicitly invests in companies that “have no ESG or DEI components in them whatsoever.”
- Masters is noted for a variety of scandals, most involving his support for white nationalist talking points. While running for senate in 2022, he justified a hardline immigration policy on the grounds that Democrats are trying “to change the demographics of our country”–a conspiracy theory commonly known as the “great replacement” theory.
- During his 2022 senate run, an old essay of his also got unearthed, in which he referenced what he called a “poignant quotation” from high-ranking Nazi Hermann Goering.
- In one past essay, Masters has also claimed that the US’s entry into World War I was orchestrated by the Rothschild banking family. His primary source was arch-antisemite C. Edward Griffin, who has uplifted “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” as an accurate depiction of the world.
- Since Trump’s election, Malik has founded a secretive invitation-only club for MAGA insiders in Georgetown called Executive Branch. The club charges members over $500,000 to be initiated, and features an “around the clock” Secret Service presence and a strict no visitors policy. Club membership is secretive, but reported to include a mix of top Trump advisors and allies, like David Sacks and the Winklevoss twins.
What does Omeed Malik have to gain from the Trump Administration?
- Malik was appointed to sit on the board of Fannie Mae in April 2025. Since Malik’s appointment, he’s joined Bill Pulte, Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) in trying to reprivatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two government-sponsored enterprises have been in a government conservatorship ever since their unsafe borrowing practices played a major role in causing the 2008 financial crisis. Housing analysts are worried a hasty reprivatization would spike mortgage rates.
- According to Bloomberg, the success of 1789 Capital’s fundraising efforts has coincided with Trump’s inauguration: “Since Inauguration Day, 1789 has pulled in $500 million more and its investors now number about 30. It’s aiming to collect $1 billion for its first fund by mid-2025 and then $3 billion to $5 billion for a second fund next year, according to a person familiar with the efforts.” 1789 is also reportedly interested in endowments and public pension funds in red states.
- Through 1789, Omeed Malik claimed he’s investing in a “parallel economy” of Trump supporters: “73 million people voted for Donald Trump, and the Brookings Institute quantifies that as 30 percent of American GDP. That’s the third-largest economy in the world. I’m happy to be the financier of the third-largest economy. I don’t need to go to Vietnam or India. I’m here.”
- Through 1789, Malik has also benefited by bringing on Don Jr. as an investor in Tucker Carlson’s TCN network, the online gun retailer GrabAGun, defense company Firehawk, Happy Dad hard seltzer, the “Enhanced Games” (a version of the Olympics that allows athletes to take performance enhancing drugs), Polymarket, digital pharmacy BlinkRx, Substack, and more. The Pulte Family Office, FHFA Director Bill Pulte’s family investment firm, has also invested in GrabAGun.
- The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Executive Committee (ExCo) condemned the Enhanced Games: “The ExCo was united in condemning the ‘Enhanced Games’ as a dangerous and irresponsible concept. The health and well-being of athletes is WADA’s number-one priority. Clearly this event would jeopardize both by promoting the use of potentially harmful substances and methods.” Peter Thiel is “also a major investor in the Enhanced Games.” Firehawk Aerospace has received millions in defense contracts since Trump’s inauguration. In a social media post, Don Jr. has tied his seat on the board of BlinkRx to the “Make America Healthy Again” agenda.
- In February 2026, Malik led a $260 million IPO for his company Colombier Acquisition III–Don Jr. sits on the board. This fund will attempt to use money from the IPO to merge with another public company, just like Malik and Don Jr. did with e-firearm vendor GrabAGun last January.
For more information, see the Revolving Door Project’s Oligarchs in Trump World tracker.