Last month, when President Donald Trump toured a Boeing aircraft plant in North Charleston, South Carolina, he saw a familiar face in the crowd that greeted him: Patrick Caddell, a former Democratic political operative and pollster who, for forty-five years, has been prodding insurgent Presidential candidates to attack the Washington establishment. Caddell, who lives in Charleston, is perhaps best known for helping Jimmy Carter win the Presidential race. Among these efforts was public-opinion research, conducted by Caddell, showing that political conditions in America were increasingly ripe for an outsider candidate to take the White House.
Trump greeted Caddell warmly in North Charleston, and after giving a speech he conferred privately with him, in an area reserved for V. Caddell is well known to this inner circle. He first met Trump in the eighties. One of the main stakeholders in Breitbart News is Mercer. Mercer is the co-C. A brilliant computer scientist, he helped transform the financial industry through the innovative use of trading algorithms. But he has never given an interview explaining his political views.
Federal Election Commission. That ruling, and several subsequent ones, removed virtually all limits on how much money corporations and nonprofit groups can spend on federal elections, and how much individuals can give to political-action committees. Since then, power has tilted away from the two main political parties and toward a tiny group of rich mega-donors. Private money has long played a big role in American elections.
When there were limits on how much a single donor could give, however, it was much harder for an individual to have a decisive impact. Through a spokesman, Mercer declined to discuss his role in launching Trump. People who know him say that he is painfully awkward socially, and rarely speaks. Several people who have worked with Mercer believe that, despite his oddities, he has had surprising success in aligning the Republican Party, and consequently America, with his personal beliefs, and is now uniquely positioned to exert influence over the Trump Administration.
Magerman shared his concerns with Mercer, and the conversation escalated into an argument. Patterson said that his relationship with Mercer has always been collegial. In , Patterson, at that time a Renaissance executive, recruited Mercer from I. The plot supposedly operated out of an airport in Mena, Arkansas. Two other sources told me that, in recent years, they had heard Mercer claim that the Clintons have had opponents murdered.
