Can This Possibly Be True?
October 24, 2025
Trump claims that an anonymous donor sent the federal government a $130 million check to cover the shortfall in military troop pay during the ongoing shutdown because he loves the military. “He called us the other day.”
Update: It is now being reported that billionaire political mega donor Timothy Mellon wrote the check. I wonder what he will be expecting from Trump in return?
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
Thomas Massie's America First : A Documentary by Tom Woods & Dan Smotz