Robert F Kennedy Jr’s campaign bankrolled by Republican mega-donor
Robert F Kennedy Jr’s campaign bankrolled by Republican mega-donor
Super Pac affiliated with anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist received $5m from Trump backer Timothy Mellon
A few notable quotes from the article follow:
"A Super Pac affiliated with Robert F Kennedy Jr, the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist running for president as a Democrat, owes half its cash to a longtime Republican mega-donor and Trump backer, according to campaign finance reports filed on Monday."
... and further...
"Kennedy’s campaign attracted a considerable amount of support from Republican donors in the weeks since he announced his run in April. A political watchdog found that Kennedy has a “long history” of antisemitism, racism and xenophobia."
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
A Super Pac affiliated with Robert F Kennedy Jr, the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist running for president as a Democrat, owes half its cash to a longtime Republican mega-donor and Trump backer, according to campaign finance reports filed on Monday.
The group, American Values 2024, reported receiving m from Timothy Mellon, a wealthy businessman from Wyoming, according to NBC News and Politico.
Mellon, who twice gave 0m to the Trump-aligned America First Action Super Pac in 2020, also used racist stereotypes to describe Black people in an autobiography he self-published in 2015.
“The fact that Kennedy gets so much bipartisan support tells me two things: that he’s the one candidate who can unite the country and root out corruption and that he’s the one Democrat who can win in the general election,” Mellon said in a press release by the Super Pac circulated ahead of the reporting deadline.
The Super Pac, which described federal policies aimed at containing Covid-19 as “draconian”, received nearly all of the rest of its funding from another billionaire donor, Gavin de Becker, an author and security specialist associated with Jeff Bezos.
Weird, this should read “who twice gave $10m” not “who twice gave 0m” looks like the bot is omitting $ signs and the character next to it
Thanks for the report, I've fixed it now. It should be deployed in ~20 minutes.
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