Steve Bannon Reportedly Lost Financial Support of Mercer After Touting Presidential Ambitions
by Aidan McLaughlin | 7:16 am, January 4th, 2018
Steve Bannon lost the support of Rebekah Mercer, the GOP megadonor and part-owner of Breitbart, after crowing about his presidential ambitions, according to a Washington Post report.
The WaPo report, which came in the wake of Michael Wolff’s new book on the Trump White House — of which excerpts dropped like bombs on Wednesday — detailed President Donald Trump’s scathing response to Bannon’s quotes in the book, as well as the cease and desist letter the president sent to his former chief strategist. Buried in the report, however, is a revealing piece of information:
“Bannon has in recent weeks also alienated his main financial backer, Rebekah Mercer,” WaPo reports, “after he told several other major conservative donors that he would be able to count on the Mercers’ financial support should he run for president, a person familiar with the conversations said.”
“The person said Mercer now does not plan to financially support Bannon’s future projects — and that she was frustrated by his moves in Alabama and some of his comments in the news media that seemed to stoke unnecessary fights.”
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