October 25, 2017

Remember when Trump kept telling us he would "drain the swamp" because he was so rich, he wasn't beholden to donors? Ha ha, good times!

Seth Meyers did a little primer last night about the money connections between Steve Bannon, hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, and his daughter Rebecca.

He described how Bannon used wealthy donors like Robert and Rebekah Mercer (who fund Breitbart.com) to support extremist congressional and Senate candidates across the country.

“But they’re not stopping in Alabama,” Meyers said. After all, Robert Mercer donated $300,000 to a SuperPAC backing Sen. Jeff Flake's primary challenger, Kelli Ward.

“But Kelli Ward is a doctor so she can’t be all that crazy, right?”

He then looks at a picture of Ben Carson.

"Oh, right."

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