Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 193
The Magnificent Seven
The Koch brothers, the most powerful conservative mega donors in the United States, “will not use their $400 million political arsenal to try to block Republican front-runner Donald Trump’s path to the presidential nomination,” Reuters reports.
“Three sources close to the Kochs said the brothers made the decision because they were concerned that spending millions of dollars attacking Trump would be money wasted, since they had not yet seen any attack on Trump stick.”
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