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The $130 Million Man: How Timothy Mellon Is Buying the Pentagon One Check at a Time

The reclusive heir who called welfare "slavery" and funds anti-LGBTQ politicians just wrote a personal check to pay America's troops—and nobody seems to care about the price of his patriotism.

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Joshua Powell
Oct 26, 2025
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It is defininately a what the fuck kind of moment when a hermitic descendant of Andrew Mellon—that prince of avarice who once commanded ninety-nine banks like some Gilded Age Midas—simply scribbles o…

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