GOP megadonors Robert Mercer and daughter Rebekah Mercer have no current plans to help former President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign for the White House.

CNBC ^ | 11/18/2022 | Brian Schwartz

[Jane Long]

....The Mercers, a father and daughter who were among Trump's major benefactors during his first run for president in 2016, are distancing themselves from the ex-president's third White House bid and cutting back their overall campaign fundraising, these people said. The people who spoke to CNBC did so on the condition of anonymity in order to talk about private conversations.

Always with the anonymous *sources* 🙄

[vivenne]

Drag Queen?

[vivenne]

Good morning, Snake Boy : )

[Drew68]

I believe MAGA will stay home in 2024 if Trump is not running for President.

And everyone else stays home if he wins the GOP nomination.

[vivenne]

I made nothing personal. Your words were contradictory—that was my point. They sounded, well, crazy.

[Jane Long]

She definitely inherited his high forehead. ;-)

[vivenne]

Ok. But why say it publicly? Just quite not donate. Will the public find out—maybe eventually, but maybe no one would care to look. I think it was either to virtue signal, to hurt the cause and/or the candidate/Trump? I would find this suspect coming from anyone for any candidate. It’s a turn off. Why bother telling anyone unless one is being a jerk?

[vivenne]

quietly don’t donate—ugh.

[Jane Long]

The usual suspects have slithered in 😂

[vivenne]

Let me re-phrase what I wrote because I was not trying to attack you just commenting on your sentences—replace “crazy” (Didn’t mean to insult-sorry) with convoluted/contradictory/nonsensical.

[Timber Rattler]

But, I've been told repeatedly by Trump supporters here and elsewhere that he's a billionaire, and that he doesn't need outside money for his campaign, which is one of the things that supposedly makes him "special" and unbeholden to outside interests.

That's the claim anyway.

The truth is that Trump likes to hoard his own wealth and use other people's money for his interests.

[Chgogal]

Ignore the obvious.

[vivenne]

No, his first campaign in 2016 he funded. I think he did take campaign money from the RNC from the 2020 campaign which is different than taking direct donations with an expected return on investment. He also has had the RNC pay for some of his legal bills related to all the impeachment stuff and he has more legal bills that he will have to pay for himself.
That said, we get it, you hate him. Why waste your life coming here to tell that to strangers?

[Fury]

Thanks for the explanation.

[Fury]

That’s a valid point if no one asks.

If someone (media, candidate, etc.) asks it would seem okay to say “we already gave”, etc.

[nickcarraway]

I don’t think Trump’s actually a billionaire, but it doesn’t matter. I thought he’s made it clear he’s not spending his own money to campaign or anything.

[nickcarraway]

It’s his right not to spend his own money if he wants. But he has to get the money from somewhere. But he’d probably be okay with running an underfunded campaign. In fairness, he does get more media coverage than any presidential candidate in history.

[9YearLurker]

Don’t kid yourself:

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/033116/top-10-corporate-contributors-trump-campaign.asp

[traderrob6]

“Iirc the Mercers supported Ted Cruz in the 2016 primary, then came over to Trump.”

So did a lot of folks including me.

[xzins]

That’s at least a year away. Iowa caucus is January 2024??