Tim Mellon’s $100M Contribution to RFK, Jr. and Trump – Questions Which Need to Be Asked and Answered
Quenby Wilcox
Washington 'Cave-dwelling' Dowager, Deposed Socialite Who is Highly Displeased with the Democrats AND Republicans & current State of Affairs in Our Nation's Capitol
When Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. launched his campaign in April 2023, he gave the country hope for Leadership in Washington. He has a background in law and extensive experience and knowledge of the American political system. He also knows Who’s Who in Washington and has the connections to REALLY Drain the Swamp of the bureaucrats, lobbyists, and power-elite which control it and its institutions. Furthermore, the names of his father (RFK) and uncle (JFK) gave a confidence from the American People and voters, which no other candidate has enjoyed. However, in the past 16 months his campaign has dropped the ball and become another example of how the American election process is wasting 100s of millions of dollars each election cycle. Kennedy had the opportunity to win by a landslide by rallying support from the half of the country who do not even bother to go to the polls, and capture votes of centrist Republicans and Democrats who are disgusted by the useless revolving door of candidates that come and go. He had the basic political platform which the country needs and wants—an end to bureaucracy and party politicking in DC, out of control spending, warmongering agendas, and a country run by oligarchs and corporate interests. However, from the beginning his campaign has been riffed with internal mismanagement and hijacked by his campaign manager/daughter-in-law Amaryllis Fox and fundraiser, Tony Lyons of Skyhorse publishing.
Furthermore, the fact that his principal financial backers are billionaires Tim Mellon and his VP pick, Nicole Shanahan, are further cause for concern. In addition to donating $25M to Kennedy, Mellon has given $75M to Trump, begging the question of WHAT his REAL agenda is in backing Kennedy while turning a blind-eye to the problems in his campaign that will assure he loses—and Trump wins!? At present Mellon’s contributions have escalated to a whopping $100M, with another $50M for Republican Congressional candidates in 2020. Furthermore, Skyhorse recently announced publication of Mellon’s autobiography, Panam.Capitan, with ludicrous claims that he is an “audacious entrepreneur who carved his own path in business and life.” As Robert Reich points out in his blog, Robber Baron banking heir, Tim Mellon is “The poster child for the perils of dynastic wealth.” However, the problems in banking systems, financial markets, and boom and bust economies were not invented by American Robber Barons, which include Tim Mellon’s grandfather, Andrew. These families, with their trust funds, and idle rich offspring, have been responsible for the boom-and-bust economies in the country for the past 150 years.?
Unfortunately, my own book manuscript, which Skyhorse publishing turned down a year ago, now includes a chapter on how and why Kennedy failed to capture the White House in what would have been an easy win, if he had played his cards right. Stupid is as stupid does!?In 2016, I warned Hillary Clinton supporters and campaign staff?up to the night before the election to wake up and smell the coffee. However, they were as much in denial then, as Kennedy’s entourage are at present. Leaders are only as good as those with whom they surround themselves, and Hillary Clinton’s and RFK, Jr. 's campaign are perfect cases in point. The American election process has become a revolving door of candidates, debates, interviews, and town halls, with lots of promises, but only hot air at the end of the day.
It is time that the press and American People take a hard look at how the billionaires and oligarchs control the American political process and election campaigns, which at the federal level has risen from?$3B in 1998 to $16.4B in 2020?with almost $90B spent in the past 25 years. As I informed Mr. Mellon, Kennedy’s campaign has completely been ignoring large portions of his constituency since it began. His messaging, campaign strategies, promo gimmicks, and policy discussions have targeted the yuppie, college educated Millennial and Z Gen vote; which is predominantly Democrat. He has entirely disregarded the parental rights groups, homemakers, 40+ blue collar workers, marginalized, disenfranchised, and agrarian conservationists who have contacted him. And, he has lost the opportunity to capture the 50% of Americans who do not even bother to vote. Amaryllis Fox, his campaign manager/daughter-in-law, staffers, volunteers, and fundraiser Tony Lyons have turned the whole thing into a 3-ring circus and sabotaged his chances of winning from the beginning.
Tim Mellon’s family are just one amongst many of the Robber Baron families, whose wives, daughters and sisters are from my alma mater, Foxcroft School in Middleburg, VA. Ever since the 1880s these families have been controlling the American government through their many foundations, donations to election campaigns, lobbyists, and nonprofits. Mellon’s sister, Catherine Conover (1st?wife of Republican Senator John Warner), and his stepmother ‘Bunny’ Mellon are amongst the many of its alumni whose ivory tower living, and amorality have produced the trickle down of corruption, egocentricity and greed in the country for generations.
Another one of its illustrious alumni is Cornelia Guest, daughter of NYC Capote Swan C. Z. Guest. It was Cornelia’s ‘Deb of the Decade’ social media campaigns in the 1980s which were instrumental in the revival of debutante balls and the narcissism epidemic she has helped to create in?the interim decades. C. Z. was the only ‘Swan’ who did not ‘cancel’ Truman Capote in 1975 after he published his ‘tell all’ article, “La C?te Basque.” Unfortunately, Cornelia’s response to my exposure of the same problems amongst DC and NYC high society ‘ladies’ of our generation, has not been met with the same concern as her mother 50 years ago. Cornelia is too busy advancing animal rights and luxury vegan living to concern herself with children and their rights, or that she and all the other heiresses and socialites are leading the country off a cliff socially, economically, and politically.?
For decades, ‘tell all’ books have been published about neglectful and abusive mothers, such as?Mommie Dearest?(1978) by the adopted daughter of Hollywood actress Joan Crawford; Nancy Reagan’s daughter, Patti Davis, with her book,?The Way I See It: An Autobiography?(1992); Jerry Oppenheimer’s book,?The Other Mrs. Kennedy: An Intimate and Revealing Look at the Hidden Life of Ethel Skakel Kennedy?(1995). However, in spite of all evidence linking abusive childhoods to escalating drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, and dysfunctional dynamics in American families and society; these subjects are still taboo in election campaigns. However, these are the REAL problems which grip the country and which voters care about and want their government to ‘fix’.
I hope that journalists and concerned citizens will ask some hard questions of Kennedy about the internal mismanagement problems, continual gaffs and retraction of policy statements, cancellation of events and meetings, and alienation of the aforementioned constituency. I also wish that?you would ask Mr. Mellon why he is financially supporting a campaign which he knows is doomed to fail? Has Mellon’s ‘game plan’ from the beginning been to use Kennedy as a ‘decoy’; thereby assuring that Trump will win??
And, if so, to what end?
I have solicited assistance from Trump’s America First Legal in bringing legal action against his adversaries in Washington and NYC whose ideologies fall under the categories of Biden’s 2021 report, “Domestic Violence Extremists Posed Heightened Threat in 2021.” However, even though this report has been used against Trump and his Jan. 6th supporters, they have ignored my solicitations for assistance. Why America First Legal has ignored me, is only a question they can answer. Trump’s campaign gave dumb-bimbo Kimberly Fletcher of MomsforAmerica.org a Voice on his podium that day. However, an educated and informed socialite from Foxcroft, and activists who has been researching the problems and issues Fletcher contends to be an ‘expert’ on, is ignored and silenced by Trump, America First Legal, and his major donor, Tim Mellon!?!? I have also reached out to Tina Descovich and Tiffany Justice, founders of Moms for Liberty, and all of the chapters across the country. The Woke, illiberal Southern Poverty Law Center, has claimed that the group is a far-right extremist group. However, this group is nothing of the such. They lack leadership from their founders and organization and coordination at chapter levels. But, their fundamental ‘beefs’ about the problems in educational systems are valid and important. Furthermore, in my efforts to build coalitions amongst ‘moms’ groups across the political divide, I even reached out to Nancy Pelosi’s ‘good friend’ Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, founder of MomsRising.com. But, again I have completely ignored and marginalized them from their ‘discussion’ for only reasons they can provide—which I wish they would!
As I keep pointing out to all of the many factions of women, the feminists, anti-feminists, socialites, and others who are in the 'discussion', the ONLY thing they are demonstrating to the world is that they cannot work together!!! A SPADE IS A SPADE LADIES!!!!