Timothy Mellon, scion of the Pittsburgh banking family, has put $75 million behind Trump while also spending on Kennedy and his heterodox causes.
Timothy Mellon, who once owned a network of railroads in the northeastern United States, seen outside an inspection train during a property tour in 1981. A scion of the Mellon banking fortune, and Trump's largest donor so far this cycle, the wealthy magnate shuns the spotlight, say people who've interacted with him.
Interviews suggest that Mellon’s support for Kennedy stems less from tactical cunning — an effort to siphon votes from Biden to boost Trump’s chances — than from ideological affinity on issues including vaccines and government regulation. Signs of Andrew Mellon’s patronage are everywhere. His name adorns the neoclassical auditorium that played host to a 75th anniversary celebration during NATO’s summit
Mellon also tangled with officials in Maine, who threatened to force a sale of his company’s railroad lines because of alleged delays and interruptions. In Vermont, the state’s top rail official called Mellon’s company “a throwback to the days of the robber barons. They are accountable to no one but themselves.” Company leaders defended their practices at the time, saying they ran safe and profitable railroads.
The southern border soon emerged as a favored cause. In 2010, he gave $1.5 million to a legal fund set up to defend controversial immigration legislation in Arizona advanced by Jan Brewer, the Republican governor at the time. Brewer, in an interview, said she never spoke with Mellon but was aware of his family history.
“Black people, in spite of heroic efforts by the ‘Establishment’ to right the wrongs of the past, became even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations,” he wrote. He was especially critical of government welfare programs, writing that its recipients had “become slaves of a new Master, Uncle Sam. Slavery Redux.”
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