Pay no attention to the media caricature in front of the curtain. She’s trying to whitewash her reputation in the wake of firing Steve Bannon and promoting climate change denial and college campus provocations.
Rebekah Mercer wrote a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed of minor import, but major contradictions, as she tried to rationalize the non-change in Breitbart editorial policy after the removal of Steve Bannon plus some other Trumpian contradictions.
For example, she spun a position in favor of science despite supporting a regime whose climate change denier policies are distinctly hostile to scientific expertise, yet whined about bothsideism of “entrenched corruption” without including Trump.
"A source familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal that Rebekah Mercer, a billionaire supporter of Trump, exchanged emails with Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix about the hacked emails.."
“Trump donor Rebekah Mercer in Aug 2016 asked [CEO of Mercer-owned Cambridge Analytica] whether the company could better organize the Hillary Clinton-related emails being released by WikiLeaks, according to a person familiar with their email exchange.”
Of course she had to admit there was something about the 33,000 Clinton emails, because a searchable database of emails has nothing, nothing to do with searchable databases of census data, voter rolls, and targetable demographic information.
And if you believe that ...I have this bridge to sell…
it’s the perfect storm of #TrumpRussia as a multi-channeled activity pursued with some coordination among some interesting overlaps among Russians, Assange as a broker, and the GOP-Trump campaign’s “Kushner targeting” including the pre-existing history of Trumpian Kompromat and money laundering.
The important point is that this is more evidence that there is some actionable relationship between the Trump campaign’s oppo-research activity (see June’16 Trump Tower Russian orphan meeting) and the election campaign database operation. More will be known as the Mueller investigation continues.
A top donor to President Trump's 2016 election effort asked the campaign's data firm if it could help organize hacked emails released by WikiLeaks on Hillary Clinton, according to a new report.
A source familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal that Rebekah Mercer, a billionaire supporter of Trump, exchanged emails with Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix about the hacked emails.
The Journal reports that Mercer asked Nix if his firm could compile the hacked emails related to Clinton and make them more easily searchable after she received the suggestion from a person she met at a event supporting Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
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