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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWOW Mercer steps down from his Hedge Fund and Clovis withdrew his Nomination
What gives today? More indictments coming this week or next?? HUMMMMMM.
President Tiny Digits will be tweeting his flabby ass off this afternoon.
Mercer article
https://www.wsj.com/articles/robert-mercer-resigns-from-renaissance-technologies-1509635197
Clovis Article
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/02/politics/sam-clovis-department-of-agriculture/index.html
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Beakybird
(3,333 posts)titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)His being under the public political microscope must be hurting the hedge fund...or so he alludes to in the article...therefore he thinks it is better to resign. He's also leaving the Board of Directors.
As for his shares of Breitbart, he is selling them to his daughter. That is odd to me. If he is leaving his business world due to his political beliefs why sell his shares of Breitbart? Possibly because he's afraid that the FBI might seize/freeze his accounts?
Hmmmm....
physioex
(6,890 posts)He is still firmly in command of things.
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)If he owns no shares and has no voting rights that isn't owning anything. But of course he will still be a billionare and will be able to control lots of political messaging and other awful stuff.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)It's getting interesting...
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)Maybe Feds on his butt and he's afraid of account seizures?
herding cats
(19,565 posts)I do still find it interesting that Daddy feels the need to sell his stake in Brietbart to his daughters.
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)not fooled
(5,801 posts)is or was suing bob for unlawful termination after said employee was subjected to a stream of virulently racist comments from bob.
[link:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-08/trump-backer-mercer-sued-by-employee-fired-after-speaking-out|]
Quelle surprise--he's a rampant racist, in addition to all his other crackpottery.
He and his Cruella de Vil daughter should go crawl under a rock and leave this country alone. Inflicting a boob of a president on us and attempting to wreck the nation is enough already.
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)Unless the fund is being damaged financially and the Board decided it would rather protect the fund then to keep him around.
malaise
(269,054 posts)That would have been hilarious