Rebekah Mercer is an American heiress, foundation director, and major Republican donor. She oversees the day-to-day operations of philanthropic and political projects for the Mercer family. Mercer is the daughter of Diana Lynne and billionaire hedge fund manager Robert Mercer. She studied biology and mathematics at Stanford University and earned a master’s degree in 1999.
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Rebekah Mercer is an American heiress, foundation director, and major Republican donor. She oversees the day-to-day operations of philanthropic and political projects for the Mercer family. Her father, billionaire Robert Mercer, said in November 2017 that he had sold his stake in Breitbart to his daughters. Mercer is the daughter of Diana Lynne and billionaire hedge fund manager Robert Mercer; Rebekah is the second of the Mercers’ three daughters. She studied biology and mathematics at Stanford University and earned a master’s degree in 1999 in management science and engineering. She worked as a Wall Street trader at Renaissance Technologies, the hedge fund her father has helped lead, and, with her sisters, owned a gourmet cookie company, Ruby et Violette, which sells cookies online. Mercer helped start Reclaim New York with Steve Bannon in 2013. The organization trains citizens to watch their government closely, and uses freedom-of-information laws to force the New York government to disclose public spending.
Mercer, along with her father, contributed USD 25 million to the 2016 presidential election. She has been more aligned with the anti-establishment part of the GOP than most other big Republican donors, and The Washington Post reported she has been referred to as the \”First Lady of the Alt-Right\”. Mercer supported Mitt Romney in 2012 and Ted Cruz for the 2016 Presidential election. In June 2016 after Trump won the primary, Mercer created the Defeat Crooked Hillary PAC, and ran the daily operations. Mercer supported Jeff Sessions for Secretary of State over Mitt Romney. The Mercers stood behind Trump after the famous Access Hollywood tape was leaked in late 2016, dismissing Trump’s claim of grabbing women’s genitals against their will as ‘locker room braggadocio’
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