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Trump’s biggest donor is a Gilded Age heir also backing RFK Jr.
Timothy Mellon, an heir to the Mellon family banking fortune, saw something in 2012 that he thought would alter aviation history: the possible remains of Amelia Earhart, who had disappeared in 1937 while trying to circumnavigate the globe. On an internet …