In the second quarter of 2023, Mellon donated $5 million to American Values 2024, a super PAC affiliated with the presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; that, together with a large donation from billionaire Gavin de Becker, accounted for 97% of donations the PAC received through the end of June 2023.[31] By March 2024, Mellon's donations to the PAC totaled $20 million,[32] and by July 2024 it had increased to $25 million.[17]

Between April 2023 and March 2024, Mellon donated $15 million to MAGA Inc. (Make America Great Again), a Trump-affiliated super PAC.[32] On May 31, 2024, the day after Trump was convicted of 34 felonies, Mellon gave MAGA Inc. $50 million, one of the largest disclosed donations ever.[33][34] By July 2024, Mellon had given $75 million toward supporting Trump's campaign,[17] and by October, the total amount donated to the PAC had reached $150 million.[35]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Mellon


I really didn't even have to bother to look it up...

Who donates $130 million and doesn't expect something in return?

There is nothing in the Constitution about this. His orders are meaningless at this point. That's my argument and I am sticking to it.

then they are nothing more than mercenaries. They are no longer the People's Army.

Wait till they temporarily bail out Food Stamps the same way. "My billionaire friends are now providing the basic needs of an army and significant portions of the population"
That'll end well /s

If this were any other country, we would classify it as a failed nation. Oligarchs paying the troops for their loyalty during the coup. What next, the Armed Forces at the beck and call for this donor?

Anything is possible these days, no matter how ridiculously unConstitutional it might be.

Just on active duty.

This would pay for maybe a day, not a month.

Trump tells them, "I'll lower your taxes. Give me donations."

Seriously, how is it legal for someone to donate money like that?
We didn't have a privately funded government for a very good reason.

but as long as Chief Justice John Roberts is calling the shots, whatever 45 does "is legal" (until they get around to it).

No doubt about that

what repuke reaction would be

Musk-Mellon projects would a gift to cartoonists and comics around the world.

"Juicy scandal leaks from Musk-Melon ... "




(PS: Mellon is a sad fixture in Pittsburgh. One thing about their city that most Pittsburghers aren't proud of.)

DUzy!

The Mellons are part of the ORIGINAL "banksters" (who have been displaced by the tech bros and crypto bros nowadays).

We had a bunch of their bank branches here in Philly, and then suddenly, they decided to get out of "consumer banking" about 25 years ago, and all of those branches disappeared (I think Citizens Bank bought a bunch of them - they being the ones that the Phillies ballpark is named for).

I actually hadn't heard about that until just now.

There's a few things in PGH named after the more generous members of the Mellon family. (Low bar)

They built a "Mellon Center" hi-rise in 1990 (about 6 years after the height limit was removed from the towers downtown to be able to go higher than Billy Penn's hat on the statue atop City Hall) and it was renamed to the BNY Mellon Center after the buyout -



Then they "downsized" and moved into the old Lit's building about a mile east (originally calling it the "Mellon Independence Center" and then changing it to the "Lit's Building" to honor the department store that the building housed years ago) -

Couldn't have remembered the name to save my life, but I remember that big building. I had never seen a dept. store with more than two stories before.

and a block west was "Strawbridge and Clothier" -



and near there across the street was "Gimbels" (torn down).



And the masterpiece 5 more blocks west was Wanamaker's (recently sold by Macy's with its organ) -



Used to "go downtown" to shop there before all the malls appeared in the 'burbs! They were all "open late on Wednesdays".

but I do seem to recall that it was 5 stories or more, with the lowest floor being about double normal height, for a huge open space.

Lit's was the furthest down from City Hall/Broad St. and just a couple blocks from Independence Hall.

This is coded language for a shadow government. The smartest of these elites pay people to keep their names from the public. But meanwhile they control all those phony politicians who act out the thin charade of democracy while obeying their masters.

He has the balls to call Social Security and Medicare, that we actually work and earn money to fund, "slavery".

Meanwhile he lives off of inherited millions that his grandad gave him, and uses them to take a giant shit on America by helping Trump get elected.