Donald Trump’s largest donor is a guy named Robert Mercer.
He is a hedge fund zillionaire and a republican activist. He and his family
have put more money into the effort to elect Donald Trump for president than
anyone else in the country, including Trump himself. In this election cycle,
one of the ways Robert Mercer spent his money was by funding one of the many
republican super pacs that played a role during the primary process this year.
Robert Mercer funded his own group of related super pacs
known as Keep the Promise and the person he put in charge of running them was
Kellyann Conway who you know now as being Donald Trump’s campaign manager. When
Kellyann Conway accepted the job as Donald Trump’s campaign manager, she had to
quit her old job, running the Robert Mercer super pacs. So Robert Mercer had to
replace her.
The guy Robert Mercer chose to place Kellyann Conway to run
his super pac was a guy named David Bossie but very shortly after they hired
him, he also left the Mercer family super pac to go work for the Trump campaign
just like Kellyann Conway did. He became the Deputy Campaign Manager to
Kellyann Conway in the Trump Campaign.
Robert Mercer is also reportedly the principle funder of Breitbart.com.
Breitbart.com is a website which is on kind of a ragged, slightly unnerving
edge of conservative media depending on where you’re coming from. They’ve been
around for a while but if you want a little flavor of what Breitbart.com is
like in the conservative media universe, Breitbart.com is these guys:
Breitbart famously called conservative commentator Bill
Kristol a “Renegade Jew” for the crime of not supporting Donald Trump.
After the massacre at a black church in Charleston, South
Carolina where nine black church goers were killed in cold blood by a white
supremacist who fetishized the confederate flag, Breitbart.com responded to
that massacre with this:
The Breitbart.com editors are also seemingly encouraged to
make as big a splash online as they can. One of their editors, Milo
Yiannopoulos, very famously was banned from twitter permanently after he led an
online campaign of racist and sexist abuse against the comedian Leslie Jones: http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/07/18/milo-reviews-ghostbusters/
And
In general Breitbart’s whole take on the Ghostbuster’s movie
that featured SNL star Leslie Jones, was that it shouldn’t have been called
“Ghostbusters”, it should have been called “Weight-watchers”.
So that’s what Breitbart is like.
When Donald Trump said he would “ban all Muslims” from the
United States that struck most people as not just obscene but also kind of
obscure. Where did that come from? It seemed like such a nutty idea. Where
would someone even get that idea if they were going to propose that in a
political campaign? Turns out, that’s not a nutty idea at Breitbart.com.
Looking at their online footprint, in particular, one of their writers, Katie
McHugh, who now goes by @deplorableKatie, frequently uses the hashtag
#DeportAllMuslims, not that you can’t come here if you’re Muslim, but if you’re
a Muslim who is here already, we’ll find you, round you up and deport you. Samples
of her tweets:
“Immigration is terrorism, forever, until you’re conquered,
close the borders”
“British settlers and their descendants built civilization,
Indians never bothered to build more than a few teepees”
“British settlers built the USA. “Slaves” built the country
much as cows “built” McDonalds”
This is Breitbart.com. Notice how in that last one the word
“Slaves” has scare quotes around it…like they weren’t really slaves.
So that’s the flavor of Breitbart. Donald Trump biggest
donor, Robert Mercer, is also reportedly the main funder of Breitbart.com. The
head of Breitbart.com, Stephen Bannon, took leave from that publication at the
same time Kellyann Conway came over from the Mercer super pac to become
campaign manager. He took leave from Breitbart.com at the same time because the
two of them, at the same time, were installed at the top of the masthead of the
Trump campaign. At the same time Kellyann Conway from the Mercer super pac
became the Trump campaign manager, the head of Breitbart.com, Stephen Bannon, became
the campaign CEO. So, from two Mercer funded outfits, came the Trump campaign
manager and the Trump campaign CEO.
It’s one thing to connect desperate dots but these dots are
very close together and not hard to understand…Robert Mercer, the Mercer family
and the Trump campaign.
Robert Mercer and the Mercer family also fund something
that’s called the Government Accountability Institute. That sounds good, right?
Sounds like it might be kind of a generic “good government” thing. It’s not a
generic good government thing. It’s a right wing activist group, run by Stephen
Bannon, the head of Breitbart.com, who is now CEO of the Trump campaign. It is
also run by Peter Schweizer, who himself is a senior editor at Breitbart.com. So
both places that Peter Schweizer works, is funded by Donald Trump’s biggest
donor, Robert Mercer.
So, with that support, all funded by this one guy, Robert
Mercer, Peter Schweizer wrote a book. And you will be very surprised to learn
that this book spins some very elaborate, very damning, very dubious conspiracy
theories about how "crooked", terrible and awful Hillary Clinton is. Once he produced this
anti-Hillary Clinton book, called by the way “Clinton Cash”, with all these
elaborate dubious theories about Hillary Clinton’s terribleness, the head of
Breitbart, Donald Trump’s now campaign CEO, Stephen Bannon, decided to turn the
book into a movie of the same name.
It’s all very neat and tidy. It’s all one piece, it’s all
one freaking donor. This is the very specific pedigree of one corner of the
conservative media world and now Republican presidential campaign, that doesn’t
look very much like anything else in Republican politics. And yes, it is super
right wing stuff, its conspiratorial stuff, but in a lot of ways, it is not
normal Republican messaging. It’s unusual, “Banning all Muslims from the
country”. This is the corner of the conservative media world that says that
Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan is secretly working for Hillary Clinton and
has been for months and he must be destroyed. And they maintain that every
republican you’ve ever heard of who is NOT named Donald Trump, must be
destroyed. Everyone from John Boehner, to Eric Cantor, to Paul Ryan to John
McCain, in Breitbart.com “ville”, they aren’t just the Republican household
names that have led this party, who every American has heard of if they care
anything about politics, in Breitbart.com “land” all of those folks are
Traitors. They’re evil secret liberals who must be destroyed. Breitbart.com has
campaigned for primary challengers against John McCain, against Eric Cantor,
against Paul Ryan, against John Boehner. They were the ones that led the online
media campaign to throw John Boehner out as speaker of the house.
Also, I should let you know that Breitbart.com wants you to
know about the rising threat of “Eco-sexuals”. http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/11/03/bored-of-lgbtqi-try-ecosexuality/ Yes, people who have sex with trees. Yeah,
people are “doing it” with trees you guys! Terrible! And if you like that
story, you’ll notice in the upper right corner of the page, Breitbart will send
you your very own copy of Clinton Cash FREE! Get yours now! And if you don’t
read you can always click the button to get the DVD! Hurry! Supplies are
Limited! Yeah, right! I don’t think supplies are limited. I’m pretty sure they
have tons of them laying around.
This week, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal
reported that there has been a “break-out” from this otherwise insular little
Breitbart.com corner of conservative media and political activism. Those two
papers reported that apparently there are Breitbart.com fans, true believers,
who buy this stuff who are working in the New York field office of the FBI. The
New York Times and the Wall Street Journal were the first to report that the
New York field office of the FBI actually used that anti-Hillary Clinton Book
and the DVD of the same name, from the Breitbart.com guys, the Breitbart.com
senior editor and his boss, the now CEO of the Trump campaign, they actually
used that book as their source, for launching a local FBI inquiry into Hillary
Clinton. That was their evidence; that was their research. These agents in the
New York field office of the FBI decided that they needed to look into what
Breitbart.com was saying about Hillary Clinton. “Sounds terrible, sound totally
legit, we should look into that. We’re the FBI”. It had previously been
reported that these New York Field office FBI agents had brought this
anti-Hillary stuff to a meeting with career Justice Department prosecutors back
in February 2016. One of the participants in that meeting described it as “One
of the weirdest meetings I have ever been to”.
But all we knew prior to this was that they had brought some stuff about
Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation to that meeting. We now know, with
this new reporting that what these agents brought to that meeting was not just
generic anti-Hillary Clinton stuff, or anti Hillary Clinton stuff they had
cooked up on their own. No, this was stuff that had been cooked up at
Breitbart.com. This was stuff that came from the “Eco-sexuals having sex with
trees” website. That is what they had. That is what they brought to this
meeting with the career Justice Department Prosecutors. And the career
prosecutors were scratching their heads and saying “ummm I’m not sure that’s a
case”.And they promptly denied the Field Agents request to investigate the dubious claims about Hillary Clinton and Clinton Foundation in the conspiracy laden, fact free book of Peter Schweizer.
Thanks to whatever is going on in that New York field office
of the FBI, that little “adventure”, which is now reportedly over, that little
adventure from the Breitbart.com readers in that New York FBI field office,
that’s what’s out now, five days before the election. That’s what was
breathlessly reported last night on Fox News. “Based on FBI sources, a whole
new FBI investigation, one that was definitely going to lead to an indictment”.
Fox News has since walked back the part about it definitely leading to an
indictment but the Trump campaign? They’re still running with it. And of course
they would. You’d expect them to. They bought and paid for it! The donor who is
mostly funding the Trump for President Campaign, paid the people who created
this story TO create this story! So, of course the Trump campaign is going to
use it. But it’s one thing to cook up a dubious conspiratorial attack and fling
it at your political opponent. It another thing altogether when you cook up a
dubious conspiratorial attack and have the FBI fling it at your opponent.
That’s a different thing. And that is what the FBI is doing in this election.
They are using stuff from Breitbart.com as their research, as their evidence,
and then they’re leaking about their “new” investigation into this “evidence”,
to Fox News right before the election. And here’s the really creepy part, here’s
the prospect that the Breitbart.com readers in this one FBI field office,
they’re not just leaking this stuff to Fox News, not just leaking the stuff to
the conservative media, here’s the prospect that they are leaking this stuff
directly to the Trump campaign. Wayne Barrett, a writer for the Daily Beast,
reports that two days BEFORE Director Comey sent his letter to congress, Rudy
Giuliani appeared on Fox News, unprompted, bringing up on his own, two days BEFORE
Director Comey sent his bombshell letter to congress about the Anthony Weiner
computer and the emails that were found on it, and said this, “We have a
surprise or two that you are going to hear about in the next few days. I’m
talking about a pretty big surprise”. When asked by the Fox News Anchor what he
meant by that he replies “You’ll see. We’re not going to go down. We’re going
to keep fighting. We have a couple things up our sleeve that will turn things
around”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMWzTvOZ5sw
That was Rudy Giuliani TWO DAYS BEFORE Director Comey sent
that letter to congress. That bombshell letter, which arguably put the
Presidency back within reach of Donald Trump. How did Rudy Giuliani know that?
Did somebody at the FBI leak to the Trump campaign, two days in advance, that
the FBI was about to throw an anti-Hillary Clinton grenade into the
Presidential race?
Yesterday, Mark Hosenball of Reuters, reported that when the
FBI Director decided to send that letter to congress, “He was driven in part by
fear of leaks from within his own agency”. He quoted his sources saying “Two
law enforcement sources familiar with the FBI’s New York field office, which
initially discovered the emails, said a faction of investigators in that field
office are known to be hostile to Hillary Clinton”.
Over at the Guardian Newspaper,
reporter Spencer Ackerman reports “Deep antipathy to Hillary Clinton exists
within the FBI, multiple bureau sources have told the Guardian, spurring a
rapid series of leaks damaging to her campaign just days before the election”.
One currently serving FBI agent tells the Guardian “The FBI is Trumpland.
Clinton is the anti-Christ personified to a large swath of FBI personnel…the
reason why they are leaking is that they are pro-Trump”. The FBI has refused to
comment on any of this reporting about its New York field office essentially
trying to throw the election in favor of Trump.
But that’s where we are right now. If part of the FBI is a
Breitbart.com fan club, and they are trying to use the power of the FBI to
throw the election in Trump’s favor, how does Hillary Clinton fight back
against that? How does anybody?
