Steve Bannon is a so-called “populist” whose projects are funded by billionaires (Bob and Rebekah Mercer). What a scam. 1/ thedailybeast.com/rebekah-mercer…
2/ “Mercer this week sold his stake in the far-right Breitbart News to his daughters — Rebekah, Jennifer and Heather Sue — for ‘personal reasons,’ he said in a statement.”
lohud.com/story/news/loc…
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3/ Glittering Steel is Bannon’s film company.
https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/895439314091360256
4/ Article about Trump Super PAC’s payments (beginning in July 2015) to Bannon’s “Glittering Steel.” Note that Trump falsely claimed that he had no Super PAC. @CheriJacobus was later viciously harassed 4 confirming publicly that Trump was lying about this. campaignlegal.org/press-releases…
5/ “The nonprofit group [Bannon’s ‘Government Accountability Institute’] behind the bestseller ‘Clinton Cash,’… got 2/3 of its funding from a single hedge-fund manager [Bob Mercer].” bloombergquint.com/politics/-clin… 
7/ The Mercers also fund Parler. (To my knowledge, Bannon is not involved with Parler.) npr.org/2020/11/14/934…
8/ “Who is Guo Wengui, the Chinese billionaire who owns the boat Steve Bannon was arrested on? “ - 8/20/20 nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
9/ “Steve Bannon’s Billionaire Benefactor Was Just Fined $539 Million” - 9/13/21 motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
10/ “The newest MAGA app [Jason Miller’s GETTR] is tied to a Bannon-allied Chinese billionaire” politico.com/news/2021/07/0…
11/ “Miller, a 2016 senior adviser who joined the re-election campaign in early June, appears to have been paid as recently as July [2020] by Citizens of the American Republic (COAR), a nonprofit founded by Steve Bannon..” news.yahoo.com/trumps-top-cam…
12/ “ARIZONA GOP CHAIR [KELLI WARD] URGED VIOLENCE AT THE CAPITOL. THE MERCERS SPENT $1.5 MILLION SUPPORTING HER.” theintercept.com/2021/01/14/cap…
13/ “The Mercers have donated $3.8 million to Citizens United, which is headed by David Bossie, Trump’s 2016 deputy campaign manager, who Trump tapped on November 6 to lead his efforts to challenge the election results in the states.“ campaignlegal.org/media-mentions…
14/ “‘Citizens United … gave a Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval to hugely wealthy political donors whose spending had been viewed earlier as suspect, if not downright corrupt.’”’- Jane Mayer vox.com/conversations/…
15/ The Mercers “paid $3.8m to the nonprofit arm of Citizens United, best known 4 the deregulation of political spending it won in a 2010 supreme court ruling. Bannon has made films for Citizens United & between 2012 & 2013 was paid $450k in consulting fees by its nonprofit arm.”
16/ Link for post 15. theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/…
17/ “Steve Bannon Attends Kelli Ward Campaign Kickoff”
“Ward's efforts to primary Senator Jeff Flake [who opposed Trump] has been gaining momentum in recent weeks.”- 10/18/17 patch.com/arizona/phoeni…
“Ward's efforts to primary Senator Jeff Flake [who opposed Trump] has been gaining momentum in recent weeks.”- 10/18/17 patch.com/arizona/phoeni…
18/ From April 2020
https://twitter.com/neeratanden/status/1252960667029602305
19/ “EXCLUSIVE: Robert Mercer backed a secretive group that worked with Facebook, Google to target anti-Muslim ads at swing voters” - 4/5/18 (To my knowledge, no Bannon involvement here.) opensecrets.org/news/2018/04/e…
20/ As I wrote this thread, I learned that Bannon and the Mercers had a falling out in 2017, but he recovered quickly.
https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/948931573331693568
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