“Oh, please.” That’s what billionaire David Koch told The Daily Beast‘s Elaine Lafferty when she asked if he and his brother Charles were funding the Tea Party. She was getting Mr. Koch’s reaction to one of a few allegations lobbed at the brothers in The New Yorker’s profile last month, “Covert Operations.
“If what I and my brother believe in, and advocate for, is secret, it’s the worst covert operation in history,” Mr. Koch added.
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