"Mercer has surrounded our president with his people, and his people have an outsized influence over the running of our country, simply because Robert Mercer paid for their seats."



For Magerman, that makes Mercer "an extreme example of modern entrepreneurial philanthropy," in which donors to "causes, political, religious, and social, do not think of their donations as gifts," but as "investments that carry the entitlement to influence decision-making, hiring, and mission.