"Robert Mercer very rarely speaks in public and never to journalists," reported the British publication, The Guardian, also in 2017, "so to gauge his beliefs you have to look at where he channels his money." This also includes, it noted, "a climate change denial thinktank, the Heartland Institute." click here
The Mercer family's nerve center in Suffolk County is its 66-acre estate in Head of the Harbor.
It was there that Mr. Trump came soon after his 2016 election win to what was described as a "lavish costume party" hosted by the Mercers. Click Here
"Several strategists who helped engineer Trump's upset win were attending, including incoming White House senior counselor Stephen Bannon and senior aide Kellyanne Conway," said the December 2016 article in Business Insider. "Both Conway and Bannon have close ties to Rebekah Mercer, the daughter of hedge fund manager Robert Mercer. The younger Mercer became Trump's leading and most influential donor and urged him to bring Bannon and Conway into the campaign in August."
It went on: "Rebekah Mercer, who ran a pro-Trump Super PAC, had compared the electoral race between Trump and his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton to an 'apocalyptic choice,' so the night's 'Villains and Heroes' theme was perhaps fitting."
And then there is Zeldin.
Zeldin spokea few hours after the January 6th attack by Trump supporters and amid the residue of the mess they made in the very House chambers in which he was talkingagainst Congress approving the Electoral College determination that Trump lost the 2020 election.
Then, in this past week, again on the House floor, Zeldin fervently opposed impeachment of Mr. Trump for "incitement of insurrection" in the fiery speech he gave in front of The White House to his followers. This is when Trump proclaimed, "We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue"and we're going to the Capitol," adding "You have to be strong." They then marched on the Capitol engaging in violence to try to undo the election.
Zeldin was re-elected in November to a fourth two-year term despite being accurately described as a Trump sycophant in that campaign and years before.
There are now many demands that Zeldin resign. He should.
And if he won't, he should be expelled from the House or voters causing him to go.
"Zeldin has tethered himself to Trump from the start," said Progressive East End Reformers. "Now comes the day of reckoning for his radical allegiance." The group charged Zeldin attempted "to subvert democracy and overturn a free and fair election." Click Here
"Lee Zeldin Must Go," was the editorial in The East Hampton Star. It said: "After more than four years as one of the corrupt president's most unfailing supporters, the rot has consumed Mr. Zeldin from the inside, turning him into a putrescent shell with no business remaining in Washington. His failure to stand up for democracy when it really mattered will be an everlasting shame." Click Here
Summing up the Zeldin situation, an editorial in The Southampton Press, The Sag Harbor Express and The East Hampton Press declared: U.S. Representative Lee Zeldin took to the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesdaywith broken glass littering the carpet, a protester killed and a Capitol Police officer fatally wounded, and three others dead as a direct result of the pandemonium when rioters smashed into the seat of American democracyand, mere hours after the bloodshed, amplified the same misinformation that fueled the violence. It was breathtaking, and nauseating."
"His misguided, oblivious arrogance makes him kin to the deluded masses who stormed the Capitol, convinced they were 'stopping a steal' of a fair election that wasn't particularly close, driven by a man who insisted, in the alternate reality he sells, that he not only won but in a landslide," it continued.
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