According to an investigation by the Center for Media and Democracy, organizations associated with the wealthy Koch brothers donated at least $8 million to media outlets from 2015 to 2018. Now, $8 million is a lot of money, but it is couch cushion change to these billionaires. This relatively meager investment helped ensure that Donald Trump was elected, it helped Trump survive crisis after crisis and crime after crime, and it paid off more than a thousandfold when the Kochs reaped an estimated $1.4 billion tax break from the law Trump passed in 2018.6 In short, it was among the most
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