JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty ImagesSix more billionaires recently donated to the Lincoln Project, a Republican-led super-PAC doing its best to defeat Donald Trump in November. This group of donors is following in the footsteps of Walmart heiress Christy Walton, who gave $20,000 to the Lincoln Project in January. Although billionaires, like everyone else, can only give $5,600 per election cycle directly to the campaigns of presidential candidates, they can give unlimited sums to super-PACs, like the Lincoln Project. In total, the Lincoln Project has raised $18.7 million this year. In May, a Lincoln Project video called “Mourning in America,” which criticized Trump’s coronavirus response, prompted the president to go on a Twitter tirade.

Source: Forbes July 15, 2020 20:29 UTC