mercer and steve bannon all connected to this? robert and rebecca mercer are basically the majority shareholders or owners of cambridge analytica. steve bannon for years was the top outside gatekeeper to the mersers. and alexander knicks e-mailed according to cnn s reporting becca mercer sark had he these communications with julian assange. bannon was previously on the board of cambridge analytica and at least at one point he had a share of the company worth between $1 million and $5 million. what you have to understand when we talk about bannon, the mersers, and the trump campaign, is that these are relationships that have been in place for years. the mersers are it s a father-daughter duo, they re billionaires. roger mercer has a health fund that s extra naerdly lucrative and he s been investigating in years in the kind of causes that steve bannon has championed. they ve developed a relationship and then when bannon got on board with the trump campaign in the summer of 2016, the
however, alexander knicks was and is the ceo of aim bridge an lit which which was paid almost $6 million for work it did on the campaign. and when knicks reached out to julian as sang, he was specifically offering, according to my sources. of course, those e-mails have not been released or distributed. as someone who was at the top of a company that worked for the trump campaign, that s a direct link. josh, you were reporting inside the data operation called inside the trump bunker with 12 days to go. you heard what they said about relying on the rnc there in their statement. that s true. it s almost laughably false. we were vied down in the month before the campaign in order for them to show off what it was they were doing. the idea at the time publicly
according to my sources, that julian assange rebuffed him. after i reported that, i got a comment from julian assange who told me that that was correct, that he did, indeed, rebuff outreach from cambridge analytica. in the time since my story broke, of course, the trump campaign has pushed back against it in kind of an oblique way suggested they relied more on the rnc for their data needs. however, the trump campaign paid cambridge analytica upwards of $5 million over the course of the election cycle. it s hard to distance yourself from a company when you ve given them that much cash. so how are trump donors robert and rebecca mercer and steve bannon all connected to this? robert and rebecca mercer are basically the majority shareholders or owners of cambridge analytica. steve bannon for years was the top outside gatekeeper to the mercers. and alexander knicks e-mailed according to cnn s reporting becca mercer saying he had these communications with julian
wikileaks founder, during the campaign asking about hillary clinton s missing e-mails. assange acknowledged this on twitter confirming that he rejected the request. the head of this firm, alexander knicks, sent an e-mail to several people, including top republican donor rebecca mercer, relaying that he reached out to assange, but no one from the trump campaign was on the e-mail chain. for context, anderson, wikileaks, which is responsible for releasing hacked e-mails from the dnc and john podesta s e-mails last year, but not hillary clinton s e-mails, which we don t know if a third party ever obtained them. this establishes the closest known link between the trump campaign and wikileaks. we should also note the daily beast was first to report the e-mail outreach. anderson. so this firm reached out to julian assange in the summer of 2016. that was right around the republican convention? that s right. it was shortly after donald trump became the official republican nominee.
told associates that he reached out to julian assange during the campaign to ask julian assange, in short, to offer the services of cambridge analytica to julian assange for the purposes of publish organize drib distribute bugting those 33,000 mission e-mails that republicans so badly wanted to find. alexander knicks also said, according to my sources, that julian assange rebuffed him. of a reported that i got a comment from julian assange who told me that that was correct, that he did, indeed, rebuff outreach from cambridge an ka. in the time since my story broke, the trump campaign as pushed back against it in kind of an oblique way suggested they relied more on the r&c for their data needs. however, the trump campaign paid cambridge analytica upwords of $5 million over the course of the election cycle. it s hard to distance yourself from a kwhp you ve given them that much cash. so how are trump donors