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Passport Cafe and Restaurant LLC purchased the cafe from Maria Rutenburg, the owner of Chez Nous Cafe. Photo by Miranda de Moraes

The owner of Chez Nous has sold the cafe, which has become a gathering place for conservatives, to help fund what she believes is President Donald Trump’s 2028 bid for a third term.

Passport Cafe and Restaurant LLC, which filed on June 8, will replace the establishment at 2159 Roosevelt Ave as an “on-sale beer and wine eating place,” according to the public notice of application for ownership change on the storefront.

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Miranda de Moraes is a Brazilian-American So-Cal native, who earned her bachelor's at U.C. Santa Barbara and master's at Columbia Journalism School. She’s reported up and down the coast of California...