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Tim Mellon, who said US safety net was ‘slavery redux’, has now given $75m to Trump and $25m to support RFK JrBillionaire banking heir Tim Mellon gave $50m to Donald Trump’s election campaign after the former US president’s hush-money trial in New York, a sum that significantly boosted Trump’s post-conviction cash haul.Mellon, a reclusive scion of the banking dynasty founded in America’s gilded age, gave the sum to Trump’s political action committee Make America Great Again. According to federal filings, Mellon, 81, has now given $75m to Trump, and $25m to a Pac fund supporting the independent candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr, this year. Continue reading…
Tim Mellon, who said US safety net was ‘slavery redux’, has now given $75m to Trump and $25m to support RFK Jr
Billionaire banking heir Tim Mellon gave $50m to Donald Trump’s election campaign after the former US president’s hush-money trial in New York, a sum that significantly boosted Trump’s post-conviction cash haul.
Mellon, a reclusive scion of the banking dynasty founded in America’s gilded age, gave the sum to Trump’s political action committee Make America Great Again. According to federal filings, Mellon, 81, has now given $75m to Trump, and $25m to a Pac fund supporting the independent candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr, this year.