Uber rich that want Trump there to serve their interests.
The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency
"The Oligarch's Alt-Right: The Nazification of America "Peg -- as I was just pointing out yet another example of Trump's open admiration, and clear yearning/ambition, for the sort of authoritarian strongman status presently held by e.g. Putin and Xi -- and Duterte -- and Erdogan -- and so forth, there having been further examples -- whatever precious little clue he has as to what he's doing beyond relying on rallying/enraging/blowing bubbles up the butts of his alt-reality base, he does know what he wants -- above/dictating the law power, profit/wealth from the corrupt exercise of that power"" .. that comment to Peg thanks to the late F6, October, 2017 .. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=135764354
March 27, 2017 Issue
How Robert Mercer exploited America’s populist insurgency.
Bannon’s indictment confirms that the American right is made up of con artists
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Bannon fancied himself a historic figure, who through his visionary genius and tactical ruthlessness would shape the world to come. Yet now he has been accused of running one of the oldest right-wing scams in the book.
Its roots go all the way back to the 1964 Barry Goldwater campaign, out of which grew a nationwide grass-roots network of conservative activists and supporters. Innovators such as direct-mail king Richard Viguerie realized that these people — or more specifically, lists of these people and their addresses — could be a powerful tool to collect money, a few dollars at a time. Viguerie later called .. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con .. one of his first lists of conservative donors “my treasure trove, as good as the gold bricks deposited at Fort Knox.”
You could raid that trove to aid conservative causes, but you could also use it to get rich. It wasn’t hard to figure out which buttons to push — the liberals are destroying the country, please send a check to save America! — and the donations would pour in. As the technology changed, the list miners adapted, moving the operation onto email and websites.
Make a donation to a Republican politician or a conservative cause and you’ll be put on a list, one that will be traded and bought and sold, so you’ll be deluged with urgent pleas for funds. And while there’s plenty of legitimate fundraising that happens this way, from the beginning, this system was awash in scammers, people who pleaded for donations but never actually used them to aid the causes they claimed.
Which is also fitting, since this history of conservative cons reached its apogee when the Republican Party made a con man its leader, the person behind Trump University ..