Jane Mayer has just published a must read article in the New Yorker : The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency (How Robert Mercer exploited America’s populist insurgency)
The in-depth article gives us the historical and current perspective on how political operative Patrick Caddell, money man Robert Mercer and fake news media king Steve Bannon joined forces in a crusade to destroy the United States Government of The People, by The People and for The People as we know it. Their vehicle had to be a populist movement that they could exploit through propaganda, all they needed was a figure head: Enter Don the Con.
If you don’t have time to read the article right away, listen to Amy Goodman's great interview with Jane Mayer from today's Democracy Now to get a synopsis.
In her article Jane Mayer introduces us to Robert Mercer the enigmatic C.E.O of Renaissance Technologies, one of the most profitable hedge funds in the United States. He is a computer wizard who helped game the markets through trading algorithms allowing him to become wildly rich. The article describes him as socially awkward, extremely introverted and intensively private. He barely speaks or makes eye contact in social settings. It seems that no one really knows his political ideology, my own theory is that his brilliance is in numbers and his goal is to amass as much wealth as possible, so his main ideology would be tax relief. But also thrown into this mix is his vulnerability to believing in conspiracy theories, one in particular that led to his venomous hatred of the Clintons. Nick Patterson a former colleague who has known Mercer since the 90’s and other sources confirmed Mercer’s belief in the Mena conspiracy theory:
Mercer insisted at a staff luncheon that Clinton had participated in a secret drug-running scheme with the C.I.A. The plot supposedly operated out of an airport in Mena, Arkansas. “Bob told me he believed that the Clintons were involved in murders connected to it,” Patterson said. Two other sources told me that, in recent years, they had heard Mercer claim that the Clintons have had opponents murdered.
The Mena story is one of several dark fantasies put forth in the nineties by The American Spectator, an archconservative magazine. According to Patterson, Mercer read the publication at the time. David Brock, a former Spectator writer who is now a liberal activist, told me that the alleged Mena conspiracy was based on a single dubious source,and was easily disproved by flight records. “It’s extremely telling that Mercer would believe that,” Brock said. “It says something about his conspiratorial frame of mind, and the fringe circle he was in. We at the Spectator called them Clinton Crazies.”
And then there is this! :
Another one time senior employee at Renaissance recalls hearing Mercer downplay the dangers posed by nuclear war. Mercer, speaking of the atomic bombs that the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, argued that, outside of the immediate blast zones, the radiation actually made Japanese citizens healthier. The National Academy of Sciences has found no evidence to support this notion. Nevertheless, according to the onetime employee, Mercer, who is a proponent of nuclear power, “was very excited about the idea, and felt that it meant nuclear accidents weren’t such a big deal.”
We are truly living in perilous times, these monsters have no fear when it comes to amassing wealth. The real treason is from within through dark money, but the laws have been manipulated to protect those within. Mercer is not the only billionaire (or corporation) with these ambitions; The Kochs, and Exxon are just a couple examples that come to mind. There is an alliance in this overthrow and they now have control of the battlefield.
We are fortunate that the populist figure head these traitors found is Don the Con, as his own corruption and greed has a trail that leads to Russia. There is still a glimmer of hope that the constitution will prevail in providing one last check to treason and Don will go down because of his corruption. But we must remember that Don is only one head on this multi-headed creature, left in his wake will be the smoother, and perhaps more dangerous clean cut water-carriers: Pence and Ryan. Hopefully the Russian dots will connect to them and several others as well.
The article is an eye opener, to further understand thy enemy please read and share.
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