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Initech

(100,080 posts) Mon Mar 19, 2018, 01:57 PM Mar 2018

Robert Mercer Is Chief Backer Of Cambridge Analytica

A powerful but previously obscure online data mining firm bankrolled by Albuquerque native Robert Mercer has been thrust into the media glare following revelations that it harvested Facebook user information to help propel Donald Trump into the White House in 2016.

Robert Mercer, a Sandia High School and UNM graduate turned New York hedge fund titan, reportedly plowed $15 million into Cambridge Analytica, which helped both the Trump campaign in the U.S. and the Brexit movement in the United Kingdom. The Journal profiled Mercer and his Albuquerque connections in November.

According to Forbes magazine, Mercer donated $24.6 million to the Republican Party in 2016. He has reportedly invested $10 million into Breitbart, the conservative news site. Financial journals place his net worth at from $900 million to more than a $1 billion.
https://www.abqjournal.com/1147718/abq-native-robert-mercer-bankrolled-cambridge-analytica.html

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!

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Robert Mercer Is Chief Backer Of Cambridge Analytica (Original Post) Initech Mar 2018 OP

Is this what they've all been afraid of coming out? This seems to be the nexus where the Squinch Mar 2018 #1

Absolument! Nt Anon-C Mar 2018 #4

Yup - corrupt, power hungry billionaires thinking that they're above the law. Initech Mar 2018 #5

This AND their emails were also hacked. Im guessing theyre more interesting than HRCs were. bettyellen Mar 2018 #6

But that WAS a great risotto recipe, you have to admit! Squinch Mar 2018 #7

Yep. dalton99a Mar 2018 #2

That's It? Me. Mar 2018 #3

And Bannon was Vice President malaise Mar 2018 #8

Quite honestly, if we were forced to choose between the Mercers and Trump for prison, GoCubsGo Mar 2018 #9

Squinch

(50,955 posts)

1. Is this what they've all been afraid of coming out? This seems to be the nexus where the

Reply to Initech (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2018, 02:07 PM

Mar 2018

Russians, the ratfucking and all the higher level republicans come together and are in debt to the trump campaign. Is this why republicans won't show any guts about calling out trumps behavior?

Anon-C

(3,430 posts)

4. Absolument! Nt

Reply to Squinch (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 19, 2018, 02:10 PM

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Initech

(100,080 posts)

5. Yup - corrupt, power hungry billionaires thinking that they're above the law.

Reply to Squinch (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 19, 2018, 02:27 PM

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bettyellen

(47,209 posts)

6. This AND their emails were also hacked. Im guessing theyre more interesting than HRCs were.

Reply to Squinch (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 19, 2018, 03:30 PM

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Squinch

(50,955 posts)

7. But that WAS a great risotto recipe, you have to admit!

Reply to bettyellen (Reply #6)

Mon Mar 19, 2018, 03:43 PM

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dalton99a

(81,515 posts)

2. Yep.

Reply to Initech (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2018, 02:08 PM

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Me.

(35,454 posts)

3. That's It?

Reply to Initech (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2018, 02:09 PM

Mar 2018

$900. million to more than a billion? The way he and his 'looking her nose down on everyone' daughter act you'd think they're worth trillions.

malaise

(269,054 posts)

8. And Bannon was Vice President

Reply to Initech (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2018, 03:48 PM

Mar 2018

Lock them up!

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)

9. Quite honestly, if we were forced to choose between the Mercers and Trump for prison,

Reply to Initech (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2018, 03:54 PM

Mar 2018

I would choose the Mercers. They have done more damage to this country and it's democracy than anyone, other than Koch Brothers. Without them, Trump would still be in NYC, driving himself into another bankruptcy. I hope Mueller does to them what he did to John Gotti.

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