Rebekah and Robert Mercer
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Last month, when President Donald Trump toured a Boeing aircraft plant in North Charleston, South Carolina, he saw a familiar face in the crowd that greeted him: Patrick Caddell, a former Democratic political operative and pollster who, for forty-five years, has been prodding insurgent Presidential candidates to attack the Washington establishment. Caddell, who lives in Charleston, is perhaps best known for helping Jimmy Carter win the 1976 Presidential race. He is also remembered for having collaborated with his friend Warren Beatty on the 1998 satire “Bulworth.” In that film, a kamikaze candidate abandons the usual talking points and excoriates both the major political parties and the media; voters love his unconventionality, and he becomes improbably popular. If the plot sounds familiar, there’s a reason: in recent years, Caddell has offered political advice to Trump. He has not worked directly for the President, but at least as far back as 2013 he has been a contractor for one of Trump’s biggest financial backers: […]
Professor Richard D. Wolff has a lot to say about the Mercers in his wonderful YOUTUBE videos, which everyone should watch, before this administration begins taking down anything they don’t like on the internet. Professor Wolff is an economist who really knows what’s going on in the world; especially the U.S.A., and is well accepted anywhere he lectures. He is both eloquent and knowledgeable about the reasons that are making us go down the toilet bowl of history, now that we have fallen for the Trump propaganda.