Saturday, August 27, 2016

Hedge Fund CEO Behind Trump Campaign Makeover Masterminded ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Smear

The shakeup in Donald Trump’s campaign has elevated numerous hard-right operatives with ties to a wealthy financier named Robert Mercer, as the New York Times detailed Thursday.

But Mercer’s political career started before he helped people like Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, and David Bossie outflank establishment Republicans and rewire the American right. And while the Times portrays Mercer‘s shift from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to Trump as simple rich-guy pragmatism, there is good reason to think Mercer’s overlap with Trump’s thinking is deeper than that....
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-money-man-islamophobia-5a31dfe31ccc#.txn8omr1o


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