FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2013 file photo, David Koch speaks in Orlando, Fla. Koch, major donor to conservative causes and educational groups, has died on Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. He was 79.
David Koch, a billionaire who lived in New York City, was the Libertarian Party’s vice presidential candidate in 1980. He was a generous donor to conservative political causes as well as educational, medical and cultural groups. After battling prostate cancer for 20 years, he told a reporter following the 2012 Republican convention that he was thinking about what he will someday leave behind.
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History named in his honor a wing dedicated to the story of human evolution over 6 million years. David Koch donated $15 million to fund the 15,000 square-foot hall. Charles and David Koch, each with an estimated net worth of $50.5 billion, tied in fourth place in 2012 on Forbes 500 list of the nation’s richest men.
He was anti_TRUMP
ChairmanBuckley Have they decided who inherits his senators yet?
Isn’t the Koch Brother who just died one of the most generous & largest individual donors towards cancer research ever? Anyone who knows or has suffered by the hands of this disease, should be praising this person w/poltics aside. Who will replace those dollars? Maybe billmaher?
He'll fit right in Hell where he is going! Rest in SH!T!! U Deserve!!
loudoggrn71
Finally!
Friend of Jeff Epstein. Your guess is as good as mine. 🙏🇺🇸🙏
Rot in hell
How much money did he take with him 🤔🙄
Praeger U and The Dave Rubin show are not 'educational groups'.
One down, one to go.
latestbiggerdonortoDemocrats David Koch democratsareimmoral
Good knows the truth thatDavidKoch usedillegal slave labor. Believe it.
What a shame. RIP (Rest in Purgatory)
Isn’t he the owner of the plants that were raid by ICE for employing illegals who were using stolen SSs or were just not paying their fair share of payroll taxes?
Woohoo! let's get rid of all of them. Starting with Donald.
How does this effect Trumps funding? Answer - It doesn’t
RIP David
Thoughts and prayers for him while he's in hell.
Burn in hell
educational groups. like the ones who wanted to say slavery was actually good.
He hated Trump.
wjxt4 Oh no....
BretBaier Proving no matter how much money you have. We all end in the same place. 79 that’s young
Woot woot, dead as disco
And the Clintonitus plague claims another victim
hes in hell now
One down, two to go. May they make haste
trump next 🤗
God is merciful. but i pray he burns in hell
YES!!! One down one to go.
We make up our minds based on prevailing winds rather than facts. We deign to agree that we, ourselves, are human beings with frailties and failings. Death the “equalizer” comes for us also. It will come for the high and the low. All will lay in the ground together. Judge not.
May he burn in a hell made of burning coal and the constant whining of fascism ringing in his ears. I'll be having a drink in celebration later.
Fake News the brothers are Liberals!!!
RIP, gone too late
What!? Hoarding BILLIONS of Dollars and screwing over the working class while giving future generations a dying planet doesn't make you immortal?!? 🔥👹🔥 DavidKoch
...and the world celebrated. That must suck lol
Enjoy hell!
Thoughts and prayers.
Hard truth: David Koch did more for humanity than all these commentators put together.
_Politics Good!!
He probably would have died today anyway once he heard Trump 'hereby order' companies to do his bidding
I’ve never understood how shitting on the environment was a “conservative” cause? Wouldn’t a conservative want to CONSERVE the environment?
May hell have mercy on your soul!
_Politics I’m just here to read the posts from the “compassionate” Libs...
The world is a better place because of it...
Conservative groups and education = oxymoron
He was a monster who died too late to keep the world from suffering for his actions, yet too early to be held accountable.
Telling people climate change isn't real is not education you dumbfucks
Thoughts n prayers
Burn in hell
The US is a little more MAGA today. Bury him in the Canadian Tar Sands
This man has some serious karma.
Death comes to us all. No amount of money can stop it from happening.
Ahhh...thoughts and prayers. sarcasm
Good news indeed. It could only be better if I could dance at your funeral.
Men die ... legacies don’t .
F
buh bye
Anyone told Dave Rubin yet?
May he Rest In Peace.
While Giving a death shout out will stop at nothing to notate if a billionaire happened to be conservative or a conservative donor. Democrat association—————crickets***************
His brother can go too
Good.
The Koch brothers were for open borders so they could have cheap labor.
effeckcancer
'Educational groups' is a fun euphemism for 'far-right climate denying think tanks dedicated to convincing people that fracking wasn't dangerous to the planet and we should give tax cuts to him and his rich friends.'
To all of the haters that are glad he passed away, you do realize that he was anti Trump right?
Can’t say I’m sorry to hear this. He and his family have wreaked havoc in this country. Karma
I love good news
May his descendants be forever donating to progressive causes.
rot in hell
I’ll burn some school books in his memory.
Ding 🔔 Dong
Clarence Darrow once said 'I have never killed anyone. But I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.
wachfox Wyatt Koch,if this all-American Patriot, gentleman, who contributed to globally respected 1st 'AMERICA FIRST'President TRUMPS'America, know that you and your family(remind Brigitte,I helped with her wedding Hat!! on Worth Avenue's side Via!) are offered our sincerest condolences.
He funded cancer research
“Educational” groups? You sure about that?
maybe us small folks will now have more voice
Womp womp.
_Politics The Koch family foundations spect $127,006,756 directly financing 92 groups who have attacked climate change & policy solutions, from 1997-2017
May God be with you.
I like how you want to say this AFTER he passed away so he cant’s agree with you. This article is an OPINION piece; no actual evidence used to establish basis of it.
I see the leftists and all their tolerance is on display today
In lieu of flowers the family asks you to find someone who has less money than you and do all that you can do to make their lives worse.
conservative AND educational...almost seems like an oxymoron.
What a whitewashed headline
Conservative causes what like denying reality
Can’t wait til Soros and Steyer kick it
True American hero, Mount Rushmore of this generation
AP points out hes a conservative and of course all the dirty liberals celebrate his death in the comment section. What a discusting world we live in
Yeah bribe money
BretBaier RIP
The comments are proof that social media is shit. What’s wrong with you fuckers? He may not be aligned with you or me, but he has a family.
Based. He can shill for ZOG in hell now.
NewsbySmiley Or, as kellyevanscnbc said on-air this morning, 'Too bad.'
It’s hard to type while I’m dancing 🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺
🎶 ding, dong the fascist warlock is dead. 🎶
Can someone let me know where his grave will be, so I can go dance on it?
Neither of the Kochs ever read Adam Smith, nor do they understand or believe a word he wrote.
SigmarxismPod 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 Rot in peace to Mr. Koch! 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
All I have in my wallet is thoughts and prayers 😆
As they say, “Change comes one funeral at a time.”
True Americans on here. I can see why other countries hate us
After reading the comments below, I can only say, wait until you find out he left half of his estate to the RNC. And if not, your comments will likely sway his surviving brother to contribute more to Republican candidates.
The country is in a better place ByeFelicia
*shrugs shoulders*
BretBaier All you have to do to see how horrible the minds of the American people are right now is read the responses to a man passing whether you liked him or not
While I will not celebrate the man's death, i will certainly not celebrate his life either. This is a win for the environment.
TheTweetOfGod can trump be next?
He was quite the Philanthropist eventhough his money influenced politics. Great man to give away over 1 billion of his wealth to great charitable causes including Sloan Kettering Cancer Hospital in Manhattan. RIP
May he rest in peace roasting. All those billions and I wonder how much he took with him.
Maybe now we can start rebuilding our infrastructure.
Conservative donor makes him sound like santa clause. He was a wealthy tyrrant that bought politicians and influenced everything from our soil to the air we breathe. KARMA is real!
These responses are pretty sad - cheering a man’s death because you disagree with his politics. Right or left, we’re all humans with lives and loved ones, and our time will come as well.
Bless his family DavidKoch
Charles, behold the future welcoming of how your passing will be viewed and ATONE!!
Hahaha
Wrong heading. Worked hard at building his empire at the expense of everyday people.
If they're going to cremate David Koch, they should save themselves all the bother and bullshit and just drop the corpse into the Amazon rainforest fires.
Woo hoo
Poor dat
realDonaldTrump has one less enemy
A burial I support with joy.
I hope the afterlife has a separate Koch furnace opened and ready.
All I can think of is how much damage he caused.
Today the world is a slightly better place.
...and cancer to democracy.
aw ='(
He has a whole lot of explaining to do to God now.
..And his feet curled up and receded under the mansion as the colorful little people working for him watched and their eyes grew wide. .
“Educational.” That’s funny.
Pretty sure the Koch bros donate to both parties! But good headline! LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder
rosannascotto Lately more progressive than conservative. Joing with Soros ? Openboarders....? Not a Trump supporter...leftists may want to rethink their displays of joy at his passing.
BretBaier ...and hospitals, and schools, and the arts, and other charities...
Hillary finally called in her tab.
Bye bigot !
Look at all the peaceful liberal comments.
The more I read about David Koch, the more I feel lied to by the Left base, and the more I admire him. He actually used capitalism for good.
🖕
You forgot he was a staunch enemy of the planet Earth.
Wish I didn't feel glad about this
Let’s tune in see the amount of vitriol the left has to spew....
And nothing of value was lost.
He deserved death infinitely more than the millions dead because of his wickedness.
good riddance
The 'Tolerant' Leftist Liberals on display folks. If you don't agree with my asinine ideals I wish death upon. The main reason liberals lose elections are among the nation's poorest and least intelligent.
_Politics Bye Felicia!
_Politics I'm hitting Happy Hour today!!
In the educational groups were indoctrination for The right wing political ideology
I wonder how hot it is in hell this time of year?
Unfortunately, I'm sure he has someone ready to jump in and continue his evil plan.
His money apparently did some good in the world for cancer research, but his legacy will be his contributions to tear apart our country.
I feel very sad. Wait. Nope, that was gas.
wjxt4 Soooo this is news? People die everyday, and they didn’t do anything like this guy did, and who he gave his money to....
Only thing I’m sad about is that we couldn’t get a 2 for 1 special....
ChinEse & ruSsian terrorist are picking off the wealthy & stealing their $ companies & all assets HongKongProtesters please use your brain power & get me a gun & ammo so I can protect the few innocent families that remain - China is blocking ability to make & receive calls.
crab rave time
RIH 🔥.
“Conservative” 🙄
He’s gone and left America in HELL...hopefully the Republican Party and the NRA join him there so we can clean up the Republicans mess again.
Suicided.
It’s incredible how much he donated to science and education but both believed the government should stay out of education. I just don’t understand.
I've never wanted to be the kind of person who would celebrate a death so I won't be, but I'm not sad about it.
Good. One down, one to go
Nobody fuckin caresss
Can’t take your money with you. Hope he did good with it to help others while he last on Earth.
Paying my respects
Lost so many workers in the ICE raids. Might’ve killed him to consider paying a living wage.
And a major donor to climate disinformation and retarding action on climate, which isn't even mentioned in the article. Not going to cheer anyone's death, but there's no need for whitewashing either.
This guy was one of the reasons the GOP was no longer conservative. It was his plant that was raided in one of the largest illegal immigrant busts in history. He may have been to the right of the current Democratic party, but he was no real conservative. He bought the GOP
Byeeee
It should not surprise anyone who follows politics to see a joyful reaction. The man set the country back decades all for financial gain. He won't be missed by decent people.
Congratulations to the heirs of David Koch, who will get all the money after they finish tossing him into the ground, and only pay a fraction of a percent on it in taxes 💵💵💵🍾🥂
lmao bye bitch
The replies in this thread and the timelines of those posting, offer a fascinating look into the minds of the unintelligible rabble. Twitter liberals are completely emotionally unhinged retards. lol
To all of you celebrating this - I would assume he has family and friends who love and care about him. Nobody is wholly guilty or wholly innocent. We’re all a mixed bag.
good riddance
Ok, shrugs.
Ambivalent about it, but not going to lie one bit , glad , surprised, and happy was my first instinct. I’ll worry about regret later! He won’t be missed 🤷♂️
Good riddance.
Awesome for democracy
👀
May he rot in the deepest pits of Hell.
Good riddance.
Good riddance
An interesting way to say he funded hate.
“When I pass on, I want people to say he did a lot of good things, he made a real difference, he saved a lot of lives in cancer research.” I hope there’s an afterlife and that wherever you are, you’ve realized your true legacy—giving us Donald Trump and ruining this country.
Not at all missing him! Kill Citizens United
PeterSchorschFL
It's amazing that people are acting like this is a loss for the right when he and his brother actively stated on multiple occasions that they wouldn't support Trump and would consider supporting Democrats. They were never Republicans to begin with.
👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👏🤣✅👊☮️🌈🌊👏👏
lol, owned.
Someone wanted to avoid their tribunal. Or they already went through it and this was the sentence.
Fine.
It's days like this I hope there's a Hell
Advocate for open borders but AP liken him to conservative causes 🤔
The world is a better place today
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS America!!!
Thoughts & prayers...
When’s the dance party on his grave?
_Images
Good riddance.
FUCK YEAH
He was a monster and the world is a better place w/o him. BurnInHellDavidKoch
And was he able to bring all of his hoarded money with him to the afterlife?
Good riddance
Sympathy for his family but the planet will be better off without him. A terrible, greedy, heartless human being.
......Finally
lol owned
His name was also just released in the Epstein saga. Hmmmm
conservative my ass!
An example of a human being who’s added no value to humanity
Thoughts n prayerz 🙏🏻
Excellent news
Right-wingers gonna 'pour one out' in honor of David Koch today by dumping motor oil into their favorite fishing holes? BurnInHellDavidKoch
Now he knows whether it was worth it.
One down, one to go...
KOCH was for KOCH.
Think of all the good things he could have done to help people, to make the world a better place, instead of the path he chose.
Now he's an organ donor to composing corpses and infotainment gurus.
hasanminhaj
May he burn painfully for all eternity in the deepest pits of Hell.
A one way ticket to hell.
'Educational groups' is centrist shorthand for cynical propaganda operations.
part of his will should go to 1,000 homeless/people in need. like $500 for each family or something. i know it cant be done now but that would be cool
Now do McConnell
Finally some good news.
Good. One less wealthy asshole alive to help destroy our democracy and our economy.
good riddance
Progress one funeral at a time.
One down, one to go.
All the money in the world couldn't get Koch to his 80th birthday
Bye Felicia.
Tried re-segrating schools in North Carolina Family linked to nazi support Polluted the world Supported the keystone pipline... While we are all affected by climate change he contributed too, I hope he experiences the heat from the flames of hell.
so frigging happy!!!
Share a Koch with The Devil
Good
WOW BeginningOfTheEnd 👀
*Witch is dead song*
Happy day
Billionaire David Koch has died at age 79. Koch was a major donor to conservative causes and educational groups.
Can I assume there will be a state funeral in the capitol rotunda?
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