Politics

The Secret Heiress Funding the Right-Wing Media

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Rebekah Mercer and her family were so unhappy with the media that they spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build their own—and they’re all in for Trump.

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Rebekah Mercer doesn’t want to be in the news. But she wants to change it.

She’s one of the three daughters of Robert Mercer, a reclusive hedge fund billionaire who shells out millions to boost Republican candidates and causes.

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