Many a workplace across America has grappled with the election of Donald J. Trump. For those lucky offices in which everyone is either universally thrilled or universally horrified by the fact that a former reality TV show host with zero government experience is now leading the free world, things are easy. Staff lunches can be spent railing against the dishonest media or they can be spent smashing a Trump-shaped piñata, respectively. Things get trickier at those companies where reactions vary as to the relative merits of November the 8—particularly when the boss holds one view and employees hold another. Doubly so when the boss in question is Renaissance President Robert Mercer, who along with his daughter Rebekah, was instrumental in getting Trump elected, and former Renaissance Technologies partner David Magerman, who believes with all his heart that Trump, with the help of the Mercers, is destroying America.

When last we checked in on the saga of Magerman versus Mercer, the two had crossed paths at a charity poker tournament after not having seen each other for months, on account of Magerman informing The Wall Street Journal that he thought Mercer was a racist, and Mercer, after calling Magerman and saying, “I hear you’re going around saying I’m a white supremacist,” suspending him without pay. Magerman, who'd worked as a research scientist at the East Setauket firm for 22 years, hoped the event would be an opportunity to make amends with Mercer, as well as RenTec’s more liberally inclined founder Jim Simons, let bygones be bygones, and return to his work at the world’s most successful quant shop.

Things started out well enough, with Magerman reportedly having friendly interactions with both Mercer and Simons. Things took a less positive turn when Magerman ran into Rebekah Mercer, who told Magerman he was “pond scum,” that she “always knew” he was pond scum, and ordered him to show himself out (“karma is a bitch,” she added). Unfortunately for Magerman, rather than an apology, he received a letter in the mail informing him that he had been fired, dated April 29, one day after the Journal’s report about the poker tournament was published. Unfortunately for Mercer, Magerman’s next move was to sue him for wrongful termination and violating his civil rights.

In court papers filed on Friday, Magerman argues that following a pair of phone conversations in which Mercer expressed arguably racist opinions, Magerman felt obliged to inform the press about his boss’s viewpoints—and that he received verbal assurance by Renaissance C.O.O. Mark Silber that the statements he intended to make were “permissible under company policy.” Those racist opinions, according to Magerman, included comments such as:

a) The United States began to go in the wrong direction after the passage of the Civl Rights Act in the 1960s;

b) African Americans were doing fine in the late-1950s and early-1960s before the Civil Rights Act;