Trump backer Robert Mercer helped fund anti-Muslim ads in 2016, new documents show
Source: MSN/USA Today
WASHINGTON — Robert Mercer, a billionaire supporter of President Trump, spent $2 million to help target voters in swing states with anti-Muslim advertising ahead of the 2016 election, according to documents released Thursday by a nonpartisan watchdog group.
An unredacted tax return obtained by the Center for Responsive Politics shows Mercer was the largest individual contributor that year to Secure America Now, an ultra-conservative nonprofit group that funded ads, which envisioned a Muslim conquest of Western countries. The commercials ran on Facebook and Google.
One commercial welcomed viewers to the “Islamic States of America,” a land where “weak leaders” and “unsecured borders” had allowed jihadi fighters to overtake the country. It showed the Statue of Liberty cloaked in a burka and Los Angeles’ iconic Hollywood sign replaced by the Arabic phrase, “Allahu Akbar" or God is great.
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Mercer and his daughter Rebekah Mercer have been influential players in Trump’s orbit. The family has provided financial backing toBreitbart News and to Cambridge Analytica, a voter profiling form that worked on Trump’s campaign and is at the center of a controversy over misuse of Facebook user information.
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