Rebekah Mercer

A group of 182 self-proclaimed “scientists” wrote a letter to the American Museum of Natural History in New York demanding that it cut ties with trustees and donors whose politics they find objectionable.

Robert Mercer, the hedge fund titan who financed the nationalist movement that elected President Trump, stepped down from the helm of his investment firm amid intense criticism. But that doesn’t mean he’s finished with politics. Mercer is limiting his duties to research at the firm partly to allow him to increase his political involvement unencumbered by his business responsibilities, said a person familiar with the matter.

The Republican donor class started meeting with Steve Bannon over his plan to primary establishment Republicans.

From Jeremy Peters in the New York Times: Erik Prince, the founder of the security contractor Blackwater, is seriously considering a Republican primary challenge for a Senate seat in Wyoming, potentially adding a high-profile contender to a fledgling drive to oust establishment lawmakers with insurgents in the mold of President Trump.

Mary Childs writes in the Financial Times about GOP nominee Donald Trump’s largest campaign contributors: Robert and Rebekah Mercer, the father and daughter conservative donors who are stalwart opponents of the corrupt permanent political class.

If Mr. Trump had told Billy Bush, whoever that is, earlier this year that he was for open borders, open trade, and executive actions in pursuit of gun control, we would certainly be rethinking our support for him. If he had admitted to Mr. Bush that he had profited privately by allowing the sale to Russia of 20% of US uranium…

In a story covering Robert and Rebekah Mercer’s alleged role in brokering the Ted Cruz endorsement of Donald Trump, the Washington Post chose to selectively fact-check a statement from the influential conservative donors, and the results are–no doubt inadvertently–quite unflattering to Hillary Clinton.