Cenk Uygur
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Ted Cruz Grovels Before The Mercer Family... And So Does Trump.
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April 21, 2017
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8:19Now PlayingThe Mercers are billionaires that fund Republicans like Ted Cruz to rig the economic game in their favor. Ted puts on a groveling clinic. Oh and by the way the Mercer family owns Trump too. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) lavished praise on his one-time champion, mega-donor Rebekah Mercer, in a fawning entry in Time’s “100 Most Influential People” list.
Rebekah Mercer and her billionaire investor father Robert were the driving donors behind Cruz’s White House run until diverting their support to Donald Trump when he clinched the GOP nomination.
They’re also part owners of Breitbart News and a slew of other conservative enterprises.
“Rebekah Mercer is a warrior and a patriot,” Cruz wrote of his benefactor in a short tribute published Thursday. “She is the daughter of a brilliant mathematician and tremendously successful investor, and blessed with her own deep intelligence and intuitive insight, and it would have been simple for her to have settled into a life of comfort and ease.”
“But Bekah cares too much about freedom and our nation to do so.”
The Mercers’ investments helped “fuel a political revolution,” he continued, adding: “Bekah has helped transform the world of politics.””*
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