Hi everyone I'm Phoebe Lou and I am a reporter here at Forbes. Recently I teamed up with my colleague

staff writer Zach Everson to write an article about Timothy Mellon a top donor during this election

cycle.

Zach, it's great to have you here.

So yeah, to get things started, can you say a little bit more about who Tim

Mellon is and why he's so important during this current election

cycle?

Yeah, gladly.

So, you know, most of the people who are big political donors

are names people have heard of.

They've made their name in industry.

On the Democratic side you have like Reed Hoffman on

Michael Bloomberg these days on the Republican side.

You've got Linda McMahon, you've got Sheldon Adelson.

But all of a sudden in the last campaign, this guy, Timothy Mellen popped up.

And it was like, who the heck is he he when he made a massive donation to a pro-Trump super PAC.

And that's one of the things we should say up front like when we talk about them backing candidates,

it's going to Super PACs which can allow

except an unlimited amount of funds versus the campaign which is

capped at just a few thousand. So Melon really came to people's

attention during the last campaign when he made a sizable

contribution to the pro- Trump pack and then he did

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