after the bombs were dropped on her rosh ma and nagasaki and he thinks outside the blast zone low level radiation is good for people. he certainly is against global warming doesn t believe it really exists. he thinks the clintons are murders literally and he thinks the civil rights bill act was a tremendous mistake and there is no such thing in america as white racism. he thinks the only racism that exists is black racism against whites. he has weird views and people might think he is eccentric except he put so much money into politics getting his way. and this nexus to breitbart, not just the super pac. this is a year before bannon joined trump s campaign staff he described himself as trump s de facto campaign manager because
perspective, it s lower than nixon during the watergate hearings, lower than reagan during iran-contra. it s even lower than bush after katrina. a historic low for a president athis stage of his term. although many people in his core base still support him and will keep doing so, apparently no matter what he does, these numbers suggest that some trump voters are turning against him. so to try and turn the tide, as joshua green reports in bloomberg politics, aroup of wealthy backers is launching a ten-state media blitz to pressure democratic senators to support him or at least think twice about piling on. one family behind this ad buy not only helped bankroll trump s presidency, but it s one of the main stakeholders in breitbart news. we ll tell you who that is and play their new tv ad next. this
donors launched the trump revolution, as he put it. what he s talking about, they built these various organizations up that helped pull trump towards the white house. we live in a brave new citizens united world but trump didn t have a ton of money in terms of matching dollar for dollar? do you think they will open the spig gots, if those approval ratings stay where they are will we see money pouring in? with these groups, giing is unlimited. you don t need a huge broad group of donors. what need to have and what trump has in this group is a handful of billionaires willing to right million dollar plus checks to fund these type of pr campaigns we re seeing launched today. thanks. be sure to check out jane s excellent book, dark money now out in paperback. it has been great meeting so
damaging to clintons just as her campaign was taking off. they re behind the ads behind trump and behind efforts to smear and take down hillary clinton. that s absolutely true. because bannon was their political advisor before he was trump s political advisor their spending became very specific about 2011 and 2012. they built up and bannon himself told me they more than any other donors launched the trump revolution, as he put it. what he s talking about, they built these various organizations up that helped pull trump towards the white house. we live in a brave new citizens united world but trump didn t have a ton of money in terms of matching dollar for
pressure on democrats in these states who will be up for re-election next year. i thought that was interesting. right now the political calculus shows they re not sweating that at all. jane, for folks unfamiliar with who the mercers are, who are these individuals? rebecca mercer you just talked about is an heiress, the daughter of bob mercer a hedge fund gazillionaire. they are both very very far right and they came in and supported trump starting about last august. they are credited with helping pull him over the finish line. rebecca mercer sat on the transition team. she s been calling some shots who trump has hired and now they re running this outside support group. kind of a private propaganda machine run by a couple of multi-multi-millionaires and billionaires. the father, mercer, as rel relayed in your article, has some pretty extreme ex sccentri