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16. Can't find a thing about Paulson that's controversial, except his bitter divorce battle after 21 yrs of marriage.

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And the fact that he donated and helped Trump fundraise. Looked across lots of business and other sources. I missed the Politico piece. So yeah, it seems that he's tight with the right wing donor class.
I can't figure why they invest in toadies. It's as if they'd be poor if a Koch network didn't operate a move-fast-and-break-things insurgency on the government in order to protect them.

from a quick survey...

Paulson has been a major fundraiser for Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.[29][30] On April 6, 2024, the Trump campaign self-reported a $50.5 million fundraising haul at John Paulson's Palm Beach house.[31] Trump reportedly considered Paulson to become Secretary of the Treasury, but Scott Bessent was chosen instead.[32]

Wealth and philanthropy
Between 2009 and 2011 Paulson made several charitable donations, including
$15 million to the Center for Responsible Lending,
$20 million to New York University Stern School of Business (auditorium now named after Paulson; also where Barron was last seen attending class)
$5 million to the Southampton Hospital on Long Island,
$15 million to build a children's hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and
£2.5 million to the London School of Economics for the John A. Paulson Chair in European Political Economy.[33][34][35]

In October 2012, Paulson donated $100 million to the Central Park Conservancy, the nonprofit organization that maintains New York City's Central Park. At the time of the donation, the gift represented the largest monetary donation in the history of New York City's park system.[36]
In June 2015, Paulson donated
$400 million to Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), the largest gift received in the university's history. Following the donation, the engineering school was renamed the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.[37][38]
The next month, he gifted
$8.5 million to New York City's largest charter school organization, Success Academy, to change public education and open up middle schools in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn and in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan.[39]

In 2022, New York University announced that Paulson had donated $100 million towards the cost of a new building in its Washington Square Campus. The building was named the John A. Paulson Center in recognition of the gift. [40]

In 2024, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem awarded Paulson an honorary doctorate in recognition of his extensive philanthropic contributions to Israeli cultural and educational institutions.
His support for Israeli initiatives includes a
$27 million commitment to establish the Paulson Bar-El Building for Computer Science and Engineering at Hebrew University.
Paulson also contributed significantly to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2021 to celebrate the museum's 90th anniversary and has supported the Jerusalem Campus for the Arts.[41]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paulson#Political_and_economic_views

and The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/04/hedge-fund-boss-john-paulson-gives-a-record-400m-donation-to-harvard