Rebekah Mercer was born on December 6,1973 and is an American heiress and Republican political donor, and director of the Mercer Family Foundation.
28 Facts About Rebekah Mercer
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Rebekah Mercer is the second of three daughters of Diana Lynne and billionaire hedge fund manager Robert Rebekah Mercer.
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Rebekah Mercer was raised in Yorktown Heights, New York, a suburb of New York City.
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Rebekah Mercer enrolled at Cornell University and later transferred to Stanford University, where she studied biology and mathematics.
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Rebekah Mercer worked as a Wall Street trader at Renaissance Technologies, the hedge fund her father helped lead.
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Rebekah Mercer first became engaged in conservative politics in 2012 after Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 presidential election.
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Rebekah Mercer spoke to a group of wealthy conservative donors at the University Club of New York about what the Republican Party had done wrong in canvassing and technology operations during the election.
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In 2014, Rebekah Mercer joined The Heritage Foundation's board of trustees.
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Rebekah Mercer supported Mitt Romney in the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries.
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In 2016, Rebekah Mercer supported Ted Cruz in the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries.
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Rebekah Mercer led Keep the Promise I, a Super PAC, which was the largest source of financial support in support of Cruz's campaign.
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Rebekah Mercer supported Jeff Sessions for US Attorney General and against Mitt Romney, who Trump was considering for US Secretary of State.
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In June 2016, Rebekah Mercer created the Defeat Crooked Hillary PAC, and ran the organization's daily operations.
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Rebekah Mercer worked with Steve Bannon to create the film Clinton Cash.
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Rebekah Mercer has consulted extensively with former Democratic strategist and pollster Patrick Caddell on campaigns.
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Rebekah Mercer directs the Rebekah Mercer Family Foundation and served on the executive committee of Trump's first presidential transition team.
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Rebekah Mercer helped create the film Clinton Cash with Bannon, a top political adviser to Trump at the time.
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Rebekah Mercer has been one of Bannon's main financial contributors.
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In late 2017, Bannon told several conservative donors that Rebekah Mercer had pledged her financial support if he decided to run for president in 2020 against Trump.
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Rebekah Mercer said that she had not spoken to Bannon, the former White House chief strategist in the early months of the Trump administration, in many months but that she continued to support Trump.
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Robert Rebekah Mercer announced in November 2017 that he had sold his stake in the website to his daughters.
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In May 2022, Rebekah Mercer was credited with creating RAM Veterans Foundation, named in honor of Robert Alexander Rebekah Mercer who died in France during World War II.
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In 2018, Rebekah Mercer co-founded, and funded, the social media website Parler with John Matze Jr.
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Rebekah Mercer described herself in a Parler post as having "started Parler" with Matze.
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The Parler board, allegedly controlled by Rebekah Mercer, fired Parler CEO John Matze on January 29,2021.
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Tax records indicate that the Rebekah Mercer family donated millions of dollars to organizations that reject the scientific consensus regarding climate change.
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The Mercer family has contributed $4 million to the American Museum of Natural History, and Rebekah Mercer sat on the museum board of directors from 2013 to 2019.
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Rebekah Mercer left her trading job to home school her four children.