Who is Robert Mercer, and what does his name mean for this campaign season?
nothing much, except he's behind the appointment of this trio to the Trump Campaign:
Steve Bannon Trump Campaign Chairman
Kellyanne Conway Trump Campaign Manager
David Bossie Trump Deputy Campaign Manager
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=++robert+mercer++trump+bannon+conway+bossie
Rachel discusses this as part of her half hour long (so far) exegesis on Bossie's role in the destruction of the Clinton reputation, culminating in his appointment as Deputy Campaign Manager to the gathering Trump blitzkrieg
here's just one article from the google link above:
Robert Mercer, 70, is a computer programmer by training who is the co-chief executive officer of Renaissance Technologies in East Setauket, New York. The hedge-fund firm uses computers to spot patterns in financial markets that wouldn't be obvious to human traders, and has generated one of the best investing records in history.
He got involved in major political spending in 2010, buying ads supporting a New York gubernatorial candidate by highlighting his opposition to the so-called "Ground Zero mosque." Since then, he's become one of the country's biggest Republican givers, with a preference for anti-establishment candidates and Tea Party favorites. One of his most long-standing beneficiaries is a chemist and sometime congressional candidate who is collecting thousands of vials of human urine in freezers in rural Oregon for medical research.
link:
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-08-17/trump-s-new-team-brings-deep-ties-to-major-donor
lots more, and if you want to cover yourself with really filthy, morbid outrage, go all the way back to 92, and Bossie's first claim to fame, his scandalous pursuit of the family of a woman who'd just committed suicide. Rachel went into a little detail on that.....it's where Bossie got his start.
literally the lowest sort of vermin imaginable
in 1992:
...... Bossie set out to prove that a young pregnant woman named Susan Coleman had committed suicide in 1977 after having an affair with Clinton. Coleman's mother told CBS that Bossie hounded her relentlessly with his false story, even following her to an Army hospital in Georgia, where she was visiting her husband, in recovery from a stroke. Bossie and another man "burst into the sick man's room and began questioning the shaken mother about her daughter's suicide," CBS reported.
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/scum-also-rises-david-bossie-resurfa
how ironic, as the article begins like this:
One of the benefits we can all hope for from the Great Repudiation is that it may finally mean that the long Washington careers of some of the right's creepiest characters will finally be washed up. We can hope, anyway.
Exhibit A: David Bossie of Citizens United, who showed up on MSNBC to talk about his Supreme Court case involving the vicious Hillary-bashing "documentary" he made; Bossie is suing because the ads for the movie were considered campaign contributions and thus regulatable under McCain-Feingold:
he was, btw, that idiot Dan Burton's "chief investigator" in the Vince Foster murder scam, and got himself fired for doctoring tapes of Web Hubbel's jailhouse phone calls, etc. it's all in the link, in shortened form. suffice it to say that Bossie makes Roger Stone seem like Daniel Ellsberg.