BOYCOTT THE #MERCER_FAMILY
Jane Mayer on #Robert_Mercer & the #Dark_Money Behind #Trump and #Bannon's Radical #Vision
We look at Robert Mercer, the man who is said to have out-Koched the #Koch brothers in the 2016 election.
The #secretive billionaire #hedge_fund tycoon, along with his #daughter #Rebekah, is credited by many with playing an #instrumental role in Donald Trump’s #election.
"The #MERCERS laid the #GROUNDWORK for the #TRUMP REVOLUTION," Trump’s chief strategist #Stephen_Bannon said. "Irrefutably, when you look at donors during the past four years, they have had the single biggest impact of anybody, including the Kochs."
Before #Bannon and #Kellyanne_Conway joined the Trump campaign, #both worked closely with the #Mercers.
The Mercers #bankrolled Bannon’s #Breitbart_News, as well as some of Bannon’s #film projects??
Conway #ran a #SUPER_PAC #created by the #Mercers to initially back the candidacy of #Ted_Cruz.
While the Mercers have helped #reshape the #American political #landscape, their work has all been #done from the #shadows.
To talk more about the Mercers, we speak with Jane Mayer, staff writer at The New Yorker.
Her latest piece is headlined "The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency: How Robert Mercer exploited America’s populist insurgency."
She is also author of "#Dark_Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the #Rise of the #Radical_Right," which just came out in paperback.
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