Walmart heiress Christy Walton took out a full-page ad in The New York Times this week to exhort people to “show up” at town halls to, ostensibly, protest the policies of President Donald Trump, Bloomberg reported.
The ad, which ran in Sunday’s Times, was meant as a nonpartisan message to encourage people to exercise their democratic freedoms, according to the report. It never mentioned Trump.
However, among the eight declarations made in the ad were, “We respect our neighbors and trading partners,” and “We defend against aggression by dictators,” apparent knocks on Trump’s tariffs and his handling of the Russia-Ukraine war peace talks, according to Bloomberg.
“The honor, dignity and integrity of the United States is not for sale. Show up, attend your town halls, be civil,” the ad read. It concluded, “The views represented here are solely those of Christy Walton.”
Christy Walton, 76, married into the family fortune of the retail giant Walmart. She is the widow of the late John Walton, who died in a plane crash in 2005. John Walton was one of four children of Sam Walton, Walmart founder. Christy Walton is worth about $16.9 billion.
Christy Walton co-hosted a fundraiser for former Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in September, with ticket prices ranging from $1,250 to $100,000. And she recently donated $50,000 to the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump political action committee, according to the report.
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