Meet GOP donor Harlan Crow who paid for Clarence Thomas' luxury trips
, traveled with the Crow family to Indonesia in 2019 and went island hopping on a superyacht for nine days in a trip that ProPublica estimates would've cost them more than $500,000.
Though Crow's political donations are well known and his friendship with the Thomases has been reported in the past, the extent of his generosity wasn't really known until the ProPublica report.Thomas presents himself as having a modest lifestyle. "I prefer the RV parks. I prefer the Walmart parking lots to the beaches and things like that. There's something normal to me about it," Thomas said in a documentary interview, per ProPublica.to ProPublica and said his family's generosity to the Thomases was not for political influence.
"We have never asked about a pending or lower court case, and Justice Thomas has never discussed one, and we have never sought to influence Justice Thomas on any legal or political issue," Crow wrote, adding that his friends haven't sought to lobby the judge.
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