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Rebekah Mercer: A name you need to know. (if you don't already)
Mercer has a coveted seat on the Trump transition team’s 16-member executive committee. Her work, which she does mostly from home, includes collaborating with conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society — to which she has steered a combined $4.7 million or more — to recruit appointees for positions at the under-secretary level and below, according to a transition team source.
Beyond Mercer’s own direct line to Trump, she played a pivotal role in convincing him to bring into his inner-most circle several close allies whose efforts her family has financed to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, including incoming White House senior counselor Steve Bannon and top campaign officials Kellyanne Conway and David Bossie.
Three GOP digital strategists say Mercer used her influence in Trump’s circle to ensure that Cambridge Analytica, which also counted Bannon as a board member, would be brought on board by Trump’s campaign team after Lewandowski was fired. And they say Mercer has signaled her interest in seeing the company awarded the data and analytics contracts for both the RNC and an independent pro-Trump vehicle currently being planned.
They say she was a leading advocate inside Trump’s inner circle for the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions as Attorney General and the appointment of Retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn as National Security Adviser.
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Beyond Mercer’s own direct line to Trump, she played a pivotal role in convincing him to bring into his inner-most circle several close allies whose efforts her family has financed to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, including incoming White House senior counselor Steve Bannon and top campaign officials Kellyanne Conway and David Bossie.
Three GOP digital strategists say Mercer used her influence in Trump’s circle to ensure that Cambridge Analytica, which also counted Bannon as a board member, would be brought on board by Trump’s campaign team after Lewandowski was fired. And they say Mercer has signaled her interest in seeing the company awarded the data and analytics contracts for both the RNC and an independent pro-Trump vehicle currently being planned.
They say she was a leading advocate inside Trump’s inner circle for the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions as Attorney General and the appointment of Retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn as National Security Adviser.
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Bannon has one hand pulling Trump's strings and the other hand in Mercer's pot of gold. It's a mutually benefiting relationship for all - but Trump is no less a puppet. A dangerous puppet, but still a puppet. Something he takes great offense to being called. His ego can't take it. Which is reason enough to refer to him as Bannon's Puppet.
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But, thought I would explain none the less, cause when I see a deleted comment in one of my posts it drives me nutz trying to figure out what happened. 
