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TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 09:58 AM Mar 2017

Mercer group running $1M pro-Trump ad blitz

Source: The Hill

A group of wealthy backers of President Trump is launching a media blitz in 10 states highlighting the president's achievements.

The nonprofit Making America Great, run by Rebekah Mercer, will air $1 million in television ads and is carrying out a $300,000 digital advertising campaign, Bloomberg News reported.

The ads, beginning Wednesday, will air in 10 states — including West Virginia, Michigan and Florida — where a Democratic senator is up for reelection and President Trump won the vote in the presidential election. They will also air in Washington, D.C.

“Our group will be a conduit to highlight President Trump’s achievement to the rest of the country,” said Emily Cornell, who is moving from the Mercer-funded data firm Cambridge Analytica to run Making America Great’s day-to-day operations.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/326265-mercer-group-running-1m-pro-trump-ad-blitz



The rich need their tax cuts and they need them now.
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eppur_se_muova

(36,263 posts)
1. "highlighting the president's achievements" ?? Those ads will have to be postponed a bit ...
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 10:12 AM
Mar 2017

need some achievements, first.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,002 posts)
6. Republicons love him signing Executive Orders after pissing on Obama for signing Executive Orders.
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 10:20 AM
Mar 2017

Despite Obama signing fewer per year than any President in 120 years.


Tanuki

(14,918 posts)
2. Rebekah Mercer also wants lunatic Art Robinson to be Trump's science advisor
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 10:15 AM
Mar 2017

and money talks.

For those who do not know how batshit crazy Art Robinson (whom the Mercers unsuccessfully bankrolled in his attempt to unseat Rep. Pete DeFazio) is, I encourage you to check out Rachel Maddow's unsettling interview:
Part 1
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Part 2
https://m.

pfitz59

(10,381 posts)
16. wow! that was quite the spectacle
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 03:17 AM
Mar 2017

and this guy is some sort of scientist? crackpot is more like it!

not fooled

(5,801 posts)
4. The smell of desperation?
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 10:15 AM
Mar 2017

What's the matter, Rebekah? Your windup toy don the con isn't performing to specifications? Afraid the rubes are figuring out that they've been had and that the con is just a front to push your crackpot radical extremist agenda, which an informed populace would never buy into?

So, turn to more propaganda in an attempt to continue fooling the morons who voted for this asshole?

This dimwitted woman exemplifies "more money than sense". A control freak and modern-day Cruella de Vil.

The more her and her father's radical libertarian agenda--which is catastrophic for the vast majority of Americans--is exposed, the lower the con's ratings.

They all make me want to just...



DeminPennswoods

(15,286 posts)
8. Read Jane Mayer's story in the New Yorker
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 10:52 AM
Mar 2017

about the Mercers. The patriarch is a computer nerd with few social skills who was sucked into Breitbart, Bannon, Bossie and the crew's orbit. The kids are just as nutty with the aforementioned Rebekah being nuttiest of them all.

mopinko

(70,112 posts)
11. i want to know who is bankrolling that stupid book
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 11:30 AM
Mar 2017

"obama agenda" i think it is called, deep state ct, running on msnbc all day every day.
i dont think it has jack shit to do w selling the book, and everything to do w making sure their ct crapola is spewed wherever cheeto is being exposed.

13. If they have $1 million budget to tout Trump's accomplishments, what are they going to do
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 12:39 PM
Mar 2017

with the remaining $950,000?

Sculpin Beauregard

(1,046 posts)
14. The Dark Money book is frightening
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 12:44 PM
Mar 2017

The Mercers are batshit insane.

Anyone who values their freedom and the country should resist. The government is currently in the middle of a coup.

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