Trump holds Dakota Access pipeline company stock

Financial disclosures show GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump owns stock in the company building the Dakota Access oil pipeline across the Midwest.

Trump’s 2016 federal disclosure forms, filed in May, show he owned between $15,000 and $50,000 in stock in Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners. That’s down from stock listed at between $500,000 and $1 million in his form a year earlier.

Trump’s disclosure form also shows he holds between $100,000 and $250,000 in Phillips 66 stock, which has a one-quarter share of Dakota Access.

Campaign contribution disclosures show that Energy Transfer Partners CEO Kelcy Warren donated $3,000 to Trump’s campaign, plus $100,000 to a committee supporting Trump’s candidacy, as well as $66,800 to the Republican National Committee.

Trump’s stake and the donations were first reported Wednesday by The Guardian.

Law enforcement officials say they are poised to remove about 200 protesters trying to halt the completion of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota.

The demonstrators today refused to leave private land owned by the pipeline company.

Officers with county sheriff’s offices, the state Highway Patrol and the National Guard asked protesters to move off the site and were rebuffed. The authorities then left.

Cass County Sheriff Paul Laney later told reporters that authorities don’t want a confrontation but that the protesters “are not willing to bend.”