The owner, Rodney Yates, has donated over $32,000 to the Trump campaign and Republican National Committee since 2016. That is less than half, though, of what he has given to Pete Ricketts–$65,000 as an individual, and another $35,800 through his LLC. At over $100,000, Yates is one of Ricketts’s top donors (after Ricketts’s own family, of course). This is several times the amount many states allow in gubernatorial races. No wonder Ricketts is resisting issuing a statewide order and only shrugged at the news that the Gretna mall is opening in “direct contradiction with public health guidelines,” in the words of the Nebraska Hospital Association.