A former employee of hedge fund billionaire and top Republican donor Robert Mercer has alleged that he was fired for calling Mercer a racist and criticizing his support of Donald Trump.
David Magerman, a former research scientist at Mercer’s hedge fund, alleged in a lawsuit against Mercer filed May 5 that he was wrongfully fired in April after clashing with the Mercer family.
According to the suit, Magerman asked to speak with Mercer in January about the top donor’s support of Trump, who was then the president-elect.
During that conversation, according to Magerman, Mercer said the United States “began to go in the wrong direction after the passage of the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s” and said black people are the “only racist people remaining” in the U.S.
Magerman’s lawyer said in the complaint that his client was “stunned” by Mercer’s remarks and “pushed back.”
According to Magerman, Mercer subsequently told him: “I hear you’re going around saying I’m a white supremacist.”
Magerman in February quoted Mercer’s remarks in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
“I’d like to think I’m speaking out in a way that won’t risk my job, but it’s very possible they could fire me,” Magerman said at the time. “But I feel relieved I’m now doing something, and if they fire me, maybe it’s for the best.”
According to the suit, Magerman was suspended without pay a day after the interview was published.
Yup, rich white guy throwing his racist weight around.
Not surprisingly, he’s also a member of the Trumpsketeers.
If black people are the only racists left in the US, and black people keep getting shot by white officers and white gun toters, then does that mean that all this violence against a specific group is because these fine anti-racists are going after the only remaining racists in America?
Because if that’s the case - that open season on so-called racists is now a-okay - I’m going to have to rethink some things…
“…a member of the trumpsketeers.” ???
Robert Mercer and his bleeping daughter bankrolled Donito Cheetolini’s entire campaign!!
They installed the head nazi, Bannon, onto the senior staff.
The Mercers are tRump’s personal version of the goddam `Koch Bros’
There is no organization that will let an underling call the racist, egomaniacal boss a racist to his face. Unless he had an iron-clad contract protecting him, he should have expected to be fired.
What he should have done is gather incriminating dirt on the guy (and his scary data-collection, propaganda-dissemination political program) and leaked it to the media system. Rightwingers love leakers, correct?
I would have to see the employment contract to build a valid opinion.