THEY HAVE STARTED TO PUT ONE OF THE LARGEST REPUBLICAN
DONORS ON THAT LIST: REBEKAH MERCER.
THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE, BECAUSE THOSE REPUBLICAN
DONORS ARE LARGELY INFLUENTIAL, SO BY LEGALLY BRIBING ONE
POLITICIAN AFTER ANOTHER, INCLUDING THE PRESIDENT,
THEY HAVE GAINED TREMENDOUS POWER AND INFLUENCE.
SO SHE CERTAINLY BELONGS ON THAT LIST.
HERE'S A FUN PART OF THE STORY: THEY GOT TED CRUZ TO WRITE
HER SEGMENT IN THE MAGAZINE, AND IT IS SO WONDERFULLY
FAWNING IT IS HILARIOUS.
1ST, LET ME GIVE YOU CONTEXT.
THE MERCER FAMILY, THAT'S ROBERT MERCER, HER DAD, AND
REBEKAH MERCER.
ROBERT MERCER, WHO IS INVOLVED IN THE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY, AND
HE IS AT ñ HE HAS MADE A FORTUNE.
HE WANTS LESS TAX BECAUSE HE IS ON WALL STREET, BUT HE SAID
IT'S BECAUSE HE LOVES FREEDOM.
I'M SURE HE DOES.
HE ALSO LOVES HIS POCKETBOOK AND LOVES NOT HAVING YOU WATCH
WHAT HE'S DOING ON WALL STREET, BUT THOSE ARE JUST COINCIDENCES.
SO, WHEN TED CRUZ WAS FIRST RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, THE
MERCER FAMILY GAVE HIM $11 MILLION.
THAT IS A POINT WHERE WE HADN'T HAD ANY PRIMARIES YET, AND THEY
PUT THEIR BET ON CRUZ, AND SAID HERE IS A GUY THAT WE KNOW
WILL BE A GOOD LITTLE ERRAND BOY.
IF WE TELL HIM DEREGULATE WALL STREET, HE WILL PRETEND HIM
ñ HE WILL TEND TO DO IT FOR FREEDOM.
WHEN WE LOWER OUR TAXES, HE WILL PRETEND HE'S DOING IT FOR
THE MIDDLE CLASS.
THAT'S A BOY WHO WILL LISTEN TO US, BE A GOOD BOY TED GOT
AND HE WAS FOR A LITTLE WHILE, BUT THEN THEY REALIZE HE'S
A LOSER, AND HE GOT HIS ASS KICKED BY DONALD TRUMP.
SO THEY WENT TO DONALD TRUMP AND GAVE HIM 13.5 MILLION DOLLARS.
NOW, TED CRUZ FAMOUSLY DID NOT ENDORSE DONALD TRUMP AT THE
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION, I'M GOING TO COME BACK TO THAT
BECAUSE THE MERCER'S WERE NOT PLEASED.
I'LL GET TO THAT IN A 2ND.
BUT NOW OF COURSE HE HAS COME BACK AROUND, YES OF COURSE
MISTER AND MRS.
MERCER, DONALD TRUMP IS A WONDERFUL
PRESIDENT, CAN I GET MORE MONEY PLEASE?
BIYATCH.
HERE IS WHAT HE WROTE UP FOR TIME MAGAZINE.
"REBEKAH MERCER IS A WARRIOR AND A PATRIOT."
OKAY, BUT LIKE, WHEN WAS HE A WAR ñ WHEN WAS SHE A WARRIOR?
AND HOW IS, REDUCE MY TAXES THAT I CAN SAVE TENS, MAYBE
HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT IS NOT GOING TO GO
TOWARDS YOUR KIDS EDUCATION, OR YOUR BRIDGES OR YOUR
SCHOOLS OR YOUR HOSPITAL SOMEHOW IS THAT A PATRIOT?
BUT OF COURSE HE IS GOING TO TALK ABOUT HER IN A FAWNING
STYLE, LET'S GO FORWARD.
"SHE IS THE DAUGHTER OF A BRILLIANT MATHEMATICIAN AND
TREMENDOUSLY SUCCESSFUL INVESTOR, AND BLESSED WITH
HER OWN DEEP INTELLIGENCE AND INTUITIVE INSIGHT, AND IT
WOULD HAVE BEEN SIMPLE FOR HER TO HAVE SETTLED INTO A LIFE
OF COMFORT AND EASE."
AND WHAT IS SHE DOING INSTEAD?
HAS SHE JOINED DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS?
IS SHE HELPING REFUGEES IN LEBANON?
WHY?
WHAT IS SHE DOING?
HAS SHE ENDANGERED HERSELF?
IS SHE IN THE JUNGLE THERE TRYING TO CURE DISEASE?
NO, SHE HAS GONE OUT THERE AND GIVEN ILLEGAL BRIBES TO ALL OF
US REPUBLICAN SO THAT SHE CAN HAVE MORE MONEY, WHAT A PATRIOT!
SHE COULD HAVE JUST HAD COMFORT AND EASE, BUT INSTEAD SHE
WANTED MORE COMFORT, AND MORE EASE.
WHAT AN AMERICAN.
I'M ON THE VERGE OF TEARS HERE, TED.
YOU ARE GOOD AT ORDER.
ANYWAY, LET ME LEAVE IT AT THAT.
HE GOES ON TO SAY, " BUT BEKAH CARES TOO MUCH ABOUT
FREEDOM, AND OUR NATION TO DO SO."
SHE FIGHTS FOR LOWER TAXES FOR THE RICH, AND LESS
REGULATION ON WALL STREET.
SOMETIMES SHE GETS UP OFFER COACH IN THE MIDDLE OF HER
MANSION TO DO SO, TO WRITE CHECKS FOR ME OR FOR DONALD, OR
FOR OTHER REPUBLICANS THAT HER AND HER FATHER BOUGHT FOR THEIR
OWN GAME, I MEAN FREEDOM!
WELL WHAT DID SHE DO TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM?
SHE GAVE QUOTE, SHE "FUELED A POLITICAL REVOLUTION."
WELL, TED, HOW DID SHE FUELED IT?
DID SHE GET OUT THERE AND DO PROTESTS?
DID SHE GO OUT THERE AND REGISTER VOTERS?
NO, SHE JUST GAVE TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS?
I SEE.
HE SAYS, "BEKAH HAS HELPED TRANSFORM THE WORLD OF
POLITICS."
WELL THAT'S TRUE, AND THAT WAS THE $13.5
MILLION THAT SHE GAVE TO DONALD TRUMP.
AND BY THE WAY, HE LITERALLY AFTERWARDS SAID THAT, SO WE
CLARIFIED, MAKING MY JOB A LITTLE BIT EASIER.
NOW, WHEN TED CRUZ ñ NOW, COME BACK TO ñ TED CRUZ WAS STILL A
LITTLE BIT BITTER, BECAUSE REMEMBER, DONALD TRUMP UNMANNED
HIM.
HE TALKED ABOUT HIS WIFE BEING UNATTRACTIVE.
HE TALKED ABOUT HER BEING CORRUPT FOR WORKING AT
GOLDMAN SACHS, THAT WAS OF COURSE BEFORE HE FILLED HIS
CABINET WITH TWO THIRDS OF GOLDMAN SACHS APPOINTEES.
HE TALKED ABOUT HOW TED CRUZ HIS FATHER WAS A MURDERER, HOW
HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE JFK ASSASSINATION.
IT WAS AN OPENHANDED SLAP.
SO FOR AT ONE MOMENT ñ
SO, FOR ONE MOMENT, TED CRUZ WENT UP ON THE STAGE AT THE
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION AND SAID VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE.
AND THE MERCER'S WERE NOT PLEASED, THIS WAS NOT WHAT
THEY HAD PURCHASED.
SO THEY SAID AT THE TIME, "LAST SUMMER AND AGAIN THIS YEAR,
SENATOR TED CRUZ PLEDGED TO SUPPORT THE CANDIDACY OF THE
NOMINEE TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WHOMEVER THAT COMEDY MIGHT BE.
WE UPPER VALLEY DISAPPOINTED THAT UNWED NAME ñ
ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT HE CHOSE TO DISREGARD HIS PLEDGE."
HE WENT TO THEIR SUITE AT THE CONVENTION AND THEY SLAMMED
THE DOOR IN HIS FACE.
SO WHAT DID TED CRUZ, MAN OF PRINCIPLE, DO?
THIS IS A TRUE FIGHT FOR THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM, SO HE IS
GOING TO VOTE HIS CONSCIENCE, ACT IS CONSCIENCE, AND HE
WAS NEVER GOING TO VOTE DONALD TRUMP ñ SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP.
OR, THIS HAPPENED INSTEAD.
MY FAVORITE PICTURE OF ALL TIME.
KNOW YOUR ROLE.
YOU ARE NOT IN CHARGE OF ANYTHING.
YOU HAVE ANY PRINCIPLES.
YOUR JOB IS TO BE AN ERRAND BOY FOR ROBERT AND REKEBAH MERCER.
GOOD JOB LITTLE BOY.
SO NOW, BECAUSE YOU WERE SO GROVELING, AND SO PATHETIC,
WHEN TIME CAME BY AND SAID, HEY, MISTER ORATOR, WOULD YOU
LIKE TO GIVE AND ORATION FOR REBEKAH MERCER?
HE SAYS OH YES I WOULD, PLEASE FIND MY NEXT CAMPAIGN, I MEAN
FIGHT FOR FREEDOM!
THIS IS THE BIG PRINCIPLED CONSERVATIVE?
IT'S BOTH DISGUSTING, IT MAKES YOU WANT TO EVER YOUR GAZE, LIKE
ALL MEN YOU CAN BARELY LOOK AT THAT PICTURE.
THIS IS THE GUY THAT CONSERVATIVES ARE PROUD OF?
THE GUY YOU THINK HAS CONVICTIONS?
DOES THIS GUY LOOK LIKE HE HAS CONVICTIONS?
THERE IS ONLY ONE CONVICTION TED CRUZ HAS, WHICH IS THAT HE
WILL SERVE THE HIGHEST BIDDER, AND RIGHT NOW THE MERCER'S
ARE THE HIGHEST BIDDERS.
GOOD BOY TED, GOOD BOY.
SICK.