The poster child for the perils of dynastic wealth

Four generations of Mellons are now bankrolling Trump

Feb 20, 2024

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Friends,

If Donald Trump takes power this November, he’ll owe his victory in no small part to one of the richest Americans alive — in 1920.

I’m talking about the Pittsburgh banker and industrialist Andrew Mellon, who as treasury secretary for Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover, changed the…

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