Billionaire donors Robert
and Rebekah Mercer react to the private conversation with Billy Bush and Donald
Trump audio that was released yesterday. Complete statement below:
If Mr. Trump had told Billy Bush, whoever that is, earlier this
year that he was for open borders, open trade, and executive actions in pursuit
of gun control, we would certainly be rethinking our support for him. If he had
admitted to Mr. Bush that he had profited privately by allowing the sale to
Russia of 20% of US uranium deposits or that he had amassed his personal
fortune not by hard work in the private sector but by selling favors to
foreigners on the American taxpayers’ dime, we would certainly be rethinking
our support for him. If he had argued that he needed both a public and a
private position on issues facing the American public, we would certainly be
rethinking our support for him. And finally if Trump had serially terrorized
and silenced the victims of violent sexual assault whom he feared could damage
his political career, we would most definitely be rethinking our support for
him.
Donald Trump’s uncensored comments, both old and new, have been
echoed and dissected in the media repeatedly in an effort to kindle among his
supporters a conflagration of outrage commensurate with the media’s own faux
outrage. Can anyone really be surprised that Mr. Trump could have said to Mr.
Bush such things as he has already admitted saying? No. We are completely
indifferent to Mr. Trump’s locker room braggadocio.
The same media that resolutely looked away when the most
powerful man in the world, a sitting U.S. president with multiple violent
sexual assaults to his credit, snared an impressionable young intern in his web
and ruined her life, now expects us to gasp with revulsion at Mr. Trump’s
irreverent comments. America is finally fed up and disgusted with its political
elite. Trump is channeling this disgust and those among the political elite who
quake before the boombox of media blather do not appreciate the apocalyptic
choice that America faces on November 8th. We have a country to save and there
is only one person who can save it. We, and Americans across the country and
around the world, stand steadfastly behind Donald J. Trump.
The statement was first reported by The Washington Post.
