Conservative Billionaire Gives $50 Million To Pro-Trump Super PAC
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The super PAC has already reserved about $30 million in ads for around the Fourth of July holiday.
A conservative billionaire gave a staggering $50 million to a pro-Donald Trump super PAC last month, a day after the former president was convicted on all counts in his Manhattan hush money trial, according to new campaign finance filings.
Timothy Mellon, an heir of the Mellon banking family, made the mammoth donation to Make America Great Again Inc., which recently said it would spend $100 million in the coming months on a nationwide advertising blitz. The New York Times, the first to report the donation, reported that the super PAC has already reserved about $30 million in ads in Georgia and Pennsylvania — key swing states in the next election — to run around the Fourth of July holiday.
Filings with the Federal Election Commission show the gift accounted for more than two-thirds of the money MAGA Inc. brought in in May, and the Times noted it could be among the largest single contributions to a political campaign ever.
Mellon, who lives in Wyoming, has become a key Republican donor in recent years, writing eight-figure checks beginning in 2018 after largely being unknown in fundraising circles. Still, many of those who have benefited from his money have not met him, and Reuters described him as an unusual figure who is almost never in the spotlight.
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