Koch Industries
Americans for Prosperity Action said Haley is “in the best position to defeat Donald Trump in the primaries.” The news has apparently not gone down well with the DeSantis campaign.
David and Julia Koch used to pledge tens of millions a year. Since he died, records show a slowdown in public giving.
Paid-for amicus briefs are the tip of an iceberg of wealthy right-wing donors paying to secure in the federal judiciary rules they cannot accomplish through democratic elections.
In the months before David Koch’s death, his wife allegedly didn’t want nurses to use a feeding tube on him, bought a secret townhouse, and forced staffers to “mother” her kids.
The “Real Time” host went off on the late conservative billionaire, who made a career out of funding climate-science deniers.
“The genius of their plan was to put together a federated political machine.”
The libertarian Koch brothers used their financial firepower to shift U.S. politics radically to the right culminating in the promotion of the Tea Party populists.