New Reporting: Sheehy's Past Donation to Nikki Haley Under Scrutiny
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Thursday, May 11, 2023
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Helena, MT – New reporting from Daily Beast today has put potential GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy’s presidential donation history under the microscope.
Reporting reveals that Sheehy gave the maximum allowable donation of $5,000 to Trump’s primary opponent Nikki Haley in March 2021 – shortly after insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6th – and he did not vote in the 2016 presidential primary. Read more:
Daily Beast Pay Dirt: Now You Sheehy
By Roger Sollenberger
May 11, 2023
On a conservative radio show last month, [Tim] Sheehy said he supports Trump “100 percent” and endorsed his 2024 candidacy.
If that’s true, it’s a new development for Sheehy: campaign finance and voting records show very little evidence that he has backed Trump whatsoever.
In 2016, Sheehy did not vote in the GOP presidential primary.
Despite donating some $180,000 to GOP candidates in the last decade—including Mitt Romney in 2012—Sheehy had not given a dime to Trump or his associated political organizations until this year.
Ironically, he has supported another candidate in the 2024 field: in March 2021, Sheehy gave the legal maximum of $5,000 to a PAC that had just been launched by Nikki Haley, who was making news at the time for her vocal criticism of Trump over Jan. 6.
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