A New Group of Mega-Donors Now Holds Influence Over the GOP Thanks to Trump
Former President Donald Trump speaks during the final day of the Conservative Political Action Conference held at the Hyatt Regency Orlando on Sunday, February 28, 2021, in Orlando, Florida.
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Wesley Barnett was just as surprised as anyone to learn from news reports that the Jan. 6 Trump rally that turned into a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol was funded by Julia Jenkins Fancelli, an heiress to the fortune of the popular Publix supermarket chain. But Barnett had extra cause for being startled: Fancelli is his aunt.