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Mysterious Trump backer Mercer stepping down at fund, selling Breitbart stake.
CNBC ^ | 11-2-2017 | Liz Moyer

Posted on 11/02/2017 9:45:15 AM PDT by dpetty121263

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To: dpetty121263; Admin Moderator

“This could be very bad for Trump and Steve Bannon...I had heard the Left had targeted his business.”

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Since when do we get to insert our own comments instead of an excerpt from the actual article?

Why isn’t this in Chat or Opinion?


21 posted on 11/02/2017 10:10:12 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: dpetty121263
He is also selling his personal stake in the right-wing news outlet Breitbart News to his daughters.

So the Mercer family will have the same level of control at Breitbart. His daughter Rebekah is just as conservative and just as political as her Dad.

She is also a big Trump supporter.

22 posted on 11/02/2017 10:16:35 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: dpetty121263
Bannon comments at 10/31/2017 event:

“I think the cultural elite in this country is trying to nullify this election. It’s imperative that we win this fight. That’s why you see in the media today, and Drudge the last couple of days, I’m taking a very aggressive stance. And a very aggressive stance is to make sure that the Republican Party understands something, that Donald Trump was a blunt force instrument that wreaked havoc on the Clinton machine. There is no other candidate, and they had some incredibly qualified people, there is no other candidate that could have done to the Clintons what Donald Trump did,” said Bannon during a brief address at the private University Club.

“His galvanizing this movement put us 20 years ahead of where we’d be if he hadn’t come. He’s a very imperfect person. He’s the first to admit that, but he’s our president and if we back down from this fight, if we roll over from this fight, if we give up on this fight, we’re going to waste something that is very precious to this country because I got to tell you, there’s going to be a fight to nullify every election from here on in,” added the former White House counselor in comments participants provided to Secrets.

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"Donald Trump was a blunt force instrument that wreaked havoc on the Clinton machine. There is no other candidate, .. that could have done to the Clintons what Donald Trump did,”

"His [Trump] galvanizing this movement put us 20 years ahead of where we’d be if he hadn’t come."

"..there’s going to be a fight to nullify every election from here on in"



23 posted on 11/02/2017 10:16:47 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: Alberta's Child
The guy is 71 years old. Has it occurred to anyone that he's probably just retiring? LOL

And Rebekah is a chip off the old block.

24 posted on 11/02/2017 10:18:27 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: ForYourChildren
Obama said at a recent event:

“The question is [regarding Bannon and Breitbart]: “So solve that, will you?””



25 posted on 11/02/2017 10:18:44 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: Fido969

Idk the family details. There is an array of reasons for why the daughters bought the stock, and neither you nor I know which one is true. I do know that Bannon’s Breitbart anti-Kushner gossip has made the site unreadable for me. If I wanted to read smears re Trump’s family, I’d go to DU.

Another thing no one knows is why Trump spoke to Bannon. It’s entirely possible that Trump requested that Breitbart stop publicizing every nasty piece of anti-Kushner gossip Bannon can find. (Kushner is Trump’s SIL, after all. The idea that Trump likes what Bannon is doing is not credible.) Again, we just don’t know.


26 posted on 11/02/2017 10:19:54 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Paladin2

Reading comprehension...sheesh.

Rebekah Mercer is the reason the family switched to Trump after being all-in for Cruz. Thanks to Jared and Ivanka who formed the relationship with her that brought in Bannon and Kellyanne.


27 posted on 11/02/2017 10:21:09 AM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: be-baw; dpetty121263
"Mercer obviously if feeling the heat from someone"

With investors under fire for financing White Nationalism, Robert Mercer resigns from hedge fund

"The move comes just two weeks after ThinkProgress exposed Mercer as the link between 12 wealthy institutions and white nationalism"

28 posted on 11/02/2017 10:30:24 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: crz

Amen to that. Let’s have a Breitbart IPO! Short the Times and Buy BRTB


29 posted on 11/02/2017 10:33:08 AM PDT by montag813
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To: RightGeek

I like her...

“Mercer led Keep the Promise I, a Super PAC which was the largest outside benefactor of Ted Cruz.”


30 posted on 11/02/2017 10:49:56 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Ben Ficklin

Says it all.


31 posted on 11/02/2017 10:58:14 AM PDT by dennisw (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it is enemy action.)
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To: ForYourChildren

“Donald Trump was a blunt force instrument that wreaked havoc on the Clinton machine. There is no other candidate, .. that could have done to the Clintons what Donald Trump did,”

“His [Trump] galvanizing this movement put us 20 years ahead of where we’d be if he hadn’t come.”

Could you imagine if Jebbie was president? Or Kasich? What jokes. Joke on us.


32 posted on 11/02/2017 11:06:32 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: huldah1776

She’s an executive producer of “CLINTON CASH” which I have seen available on Amazon. Bannon also made movies.

Clinton Cash (2016)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5673884/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt

Bannon:

He has also worked as vice president of Cambridge Analytica’s board, a data-analytics firm owned largely by the Mercer family;[67] the family that is also co-owners of Breitbart News.[68]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon


33 posted on 11/02/2017 11:07:31 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: huldah1776

oops, missed producer Stephen K Bannon in Clinton Cash. So sorry Mr Bannon.


34 posted on 11/02/2017 11:10:30 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Fantasywriter

Nobody, even Trump and his family, should be immune from criticism especially from those of us who supported Trump and worked hard to get him elected and who still support him.

He isn’t infallible and that hipster little Jared is far far away from being so. Were Jared in my extended family, I would give him a polite listen, then school him where appropriate and use huge grain of salt. Maybe it would be better for them to go back to N.Y.


35 posted on 11/02/2017 11:59:40 AM PDT by amihow
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To: amihow

I couldn’t agree with you more. It’s not criticism, whether of trump, Kushner, or anyone else—that I take issue with. It is snide, nasty, unsourced gossip. For some reason Kushner and Ivanka are a lightning rod for it. They get trashed and smeared Nonstop, but I have yet to see a reliable source for the accusations. Many aren’t even that; they are mere opinions or shameless smears. That’s Leftist/Alinsky territory. If conservatives want to criticize a person, they ought to be able to present a well-sourced fact. Once that threshold is met, let the criticisms follow.


36 posted on 11/02/2017 12:39:53 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter

Agree. We need to out those people though.


37 posted on 11/02/2017 1:14:19 PM PDT by amihow
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To: amihow

Out who?


38 posted on 11/02/2017 1:15:33 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter

The snide gossipers.


39 posted on 11/02/2017 3:25:32 PM PDT by amihow
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To: amihow

Thanks for that clarification. Agree.


40 posted on 11/02/2017 3:49:22 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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