Leaked Documents Suggest Secretive Billionaire Trump Donors Are Milos Patrons

[demmiblue]

Source: Buzz Feed News



Secretive hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his family launched themselves into the top rank of American power through a series of spectacularly successful cash investments in politics: in Breitbart News, the far-right media outlet; in Cambridge Analytica, the controversial political data firm; and, of course, in Donald Trump, the President of the United States.

To those ventures — and a host of others — newly uncovered evidence strongly suggests an addition: Milo Yiannopoulos, the anti–political correctness crusader and conservative provocateur.

Leaked documents, including a promissory note and emails, as well as conversations with several people familiar with the matter, strongly imply that the Mercers funded Yiannopoulos following his resignation from Breitbart News after video surfaced in which he appeared to condone pedophilia. Together, they suggest that the financiers of the new conservative politics aren’t simply interested in protecting their money, but in winning a brutal new culture war waged largely online.

More than that, the documents point to a relationship that Yiannopoulos seems to regard as a kind of personal patronage, expecting from the family not just financial but legal support, after the British citizen’s visa status became tenuous post-Breitbart.

Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/leaked-documents-suggest-secretive-billionaire-trump-donors?utm_term=.eanqOPBYg#.ugW72myar

[riversedge]

1. k for visibility

[tblue37]

2. K&R for visibility. nt

[stuffmatters]

3. The Mercers and their data mining Cambridge Analytics most dangerous new GOP Zealots

I strongly suspect that Mueller's investigation will find cooperation between Kushner, the Mercers/ Cambridge Analytics and Putin's psychological war using data mining for voter profiling microtargeting Trump propaganda.

[Sunlei]

4. yes, Cambridge Analytics was surprised how they collect 400-500 points of info on everyone in USA

what you eat, time you go to work, pets, vacations, pay, voting, your internet searches, your kids, bank info....

400-500 points of info they sell to people has made them very wealthy.

I've always thought WE should be paid to be tracked.

[stuffmatters]

6. Completely agree our private info shouldn't be free to sell (or even for sale)

And Mercer's massive wealth from mining us coupled with his lunatic politics make him a major threat to our democracy.

[Sunlei]

5. "voter profiling microtargeting" be very easy to find names who never register or vote

[Solly Mack]

7. K&R

Excellent. There needs to be more digging into the Mercer family. Any and all dirt.

[Janeth001]

8. opinion

I am strongly suspect that.

[Hortensis]

9. Well, maybe this will help Milo's book sales. Apparently,

they're very pathetic and he could use the publicity -- for that.

Of course, if it interests Mueller, not so good for Milo's illicit activities or the Mercers'.

[Kimchijeon]

10. Not that surprising

It seems logical there is big big money behind the investment of the rightwing nutbag brigade. Just as a dumb layperson, my thought is they keep the populace distracted, outraged, otherwise placated with bread and circuses while they reap the financial loot and we all crash & burn into the dark ages. RIP civilization