---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-24-024423"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DJT"
cik: "0001849635"
company_name: "Trump Media & Technology Group Corp."
filed_at: "2024-05-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T22:24:29.246561+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Trump Media dismisses auditor BF Borgers after SEC bar; hires Semple Marchal & Cooper

## Summary
- Effective May 3, 2024, Trump Media terminated BF Borgers as its independent registered public accounting firm.
- On May 4, 2024, the company engaged Semple, Marchal & Cooper, LLP as replacement, approved by audit committee.
- BF Borgers is currently not permitted to appear or practice before the SEC per SEC order dated May 3, 2024.
- No disagreements with BF Borgers during fiscal years 2022 and 2023; audit reports were unqualified.
- Change comes after SEC instituted public administrative and cease-and-desist proceedings against BF Borgers.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-24-024423
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DJT
- cik: 0001849635
- company_name: Trump Media & Technology Group Corp.
- filed_at: 2024-05-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000114036124024423/0001140361-24-024423-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000114036124024423/ef20028532_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-24-024423
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-24-024423.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-24-024423.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. dismissed BF Borgers CPA PC as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: BF Borgers CPA PC
  - Successor: Semple, Marchal & Cooper, LLP
  source text: Effective May 3, 2024, Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. (the “Company) dismissed BF Borgers CPA PC (“BF Borgers”) as its independent registered public accounting firm.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000114036124024423/0001140361-24-024423-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. engaged Semple, Marchal & Cooper, LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: Semple, Marchal & Cooper, LLP
  source text: On May 4, 2024, the Company engaged Semple, Marchal & Cooper, LLP (“SMC”) as BF Borgers’ replacement.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000114036124024423/0001140361-24-024423-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.