Timothy Mellon has been identified as the man who donated $130 million to pay troops during the shutdown.
So I read Mellon's account of his life. Some highlights:
"Fox hunting was the social activity of highest importance, and both my mother and father enjoyed the chase." 1/x
Mellon's father Paul, like his cousin Larry Mellon, served in the Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.) during World War 2.
Timothy recalls that after his mother died in 1946, his father "enrolled in a classics course at St. John's College in Maryland, I think to take his mind off the sadness."
Oct 5, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
On the ground here at Ramaswamy's "Vektoberfest" here in Des Moines. I'd estimate there are a few hundred here.
The big Ramaswamy drama here in Iowa has surrounded an incident in Grinnell, where a vehicle collided with a Ramaswamy campaign SUV
The police say their investigation "revealed no evidence to substantiate" the claim it was an intentional ramming by protesters who then fled /1
