Who rules the world? THE MERCERS (money)

Politico 50: Rebekah Mercer); Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

I help rule the world with my daddy's money. We bankrolled Trump (Financial Times).

Mega-rich Rebekah and father Robert Mercer were Trump's biggest donors (politico.com)

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Rebekah Mercer (daughter of hedge fund magnate Robert Mercer) is Republican/Trump mega-donor, head (neck?) of a political empire.

The many tentacles of the Mercers' money (AP/Getty).

Number 16. With Donald Trump’s dominance of the Republican Party, Rebekah Mercer has supplanted the Koch brothers as the Right’s most important megadonor — expanding the scope of what constitutes political spending along the way.

While the Kochs pioneered the creation of sprawling private empires made possible in the post-Citizens United era, Mercer has achieved something like full vertical integration of her own private political ecosystem. It’s all in service of her anti-establishment views — and, often, President Trump’s political fortunes.

We made dirty Steve Bannon (thewrap.com).

Like the Kochs, Mercer, 43 — who manages the political giving underwritten by her father, hedge fund magnate Robert Mercer — funds political campaigns, super PACs and think tanks, and has invested in a political data operation, Cambridge Analytica.

Republican mega-donor Rebekah Mercer has a lot of influence after electing Trump.

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Mercers have long tentacles (WSJ).

Unlike the Kochs, the Mercers also control an influential media property as part-owners of Breitbart News, and they are helping to stoke a culture war through their reported funding of former Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos’ anti-Islam, anti-political correctness “Dangerous Faggot” tour, which the provocateur describes as the opening salvo in a decades-long struggle to transform college campuses and the country.

During the 2016 campaign, the Mercers also supported a new form of opposition research that was itself vertically integrated: They underwrote “Clinton Cash,” a project combining muckraking reportage on the Clinton Foundation with a best-selling book and a slick documentary — which yielded findings regularly touted by the Trump campaign.

The Mercers elected Trump

Mercers bankroll me.

After exercising significant influence over Trump’s executive branch appointments, Mercer — an intensely private person who runs a mail-order bakery with her sisters — continues to maintain close relationships with top West Wing aide Kellyanne Conway and former strategist Steve Bannon, and she has started a new outside advocacy group, Making America Great, to promote the president’s agenda. 

Together, these efforts constitute a breadth of political giving, and a proximity to power, that goes beyond what any other megadonor has so far achieved. It also amounts to a declaration of war on... More

Kellyanne Conway (Bob Mercer leaves his hedge fund, sells stake in Breitbart (Business Insider)