Just another factoid in the pile of factoids that illustrate how biased and duplicitous the republic has become.
Julian Robertson and Trent Lott: The beginning of the Social Media Mafia.
Julian Robertson's friends: Trent Lott, Dick Devos, Stanley McChrystal
Billionaire Julian Robertson of the now-defunct Tiger Management has been close with Trent Lott and Dick Devos for years. Robertson is a major donor to Betsy DeVos’s group, the American Federation for Children Action Fund (1), and sits on the board of the Children’s Scholarship Fund with Trent Lott and Dick DeVos (2).
Trent Lott gained a bit of infamy in 1997 when, along with Newt Gingrich, he slipped in last minute a $19 million tax break for Dick DeVos’ Amway Asian branches into a contentious tax compromise bill just fourth months after DeVos and his wife together donated $1 million to the GOP (3).
In September of 2010, shortly after Stanley McChrystal resigned is disgrace from the Obama Administration, he lead a private talk in Aspen with a handful of guests, including Julian Robertson (6)
Julian Robertson was a Trump megadonor (21) and Besty DeVos is Trump’s Secretary of Education.
Julian Robertson seed invests in Palantir
In 2003, Peter Thiel founded Palantir based off anti-fraud code from his days at PayPal (4) and a few months later became Facebook’s first outside investor (5). While Facebook quickly took off, Palantir struggled, only acquiring two investors, Peter Thiel’s own fund and CIA-linked In-Q-Tel (4).
That was until 2008 when Chase Coleman's Tiger Fund, seeded by Julian Robertson, invested into Palantir (7). Soon after, Stanley McChrystal’s top combat CDR, Douglas Philippone, joins Palantir (8 page 4). Palantir then hired lobbyists, of particular note, Trent Lott and John Breaux of Patton Boggs (9). Soon enough, Palantir gained fans across the military, including Trump’s future National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn (who worked under Stanley McChrystal), Trump’s other National Security Advisor, HR McMaster, and Trump’s future secretary of Defense, James Mattis (8 page 4).
Chase Coleman's network invests heavily into Facebook
In 2006, just two years prior to investing in Palantir, Julian Robertson’s Tiger Fund invested in Mail.ru along with Yuri Milner’s DST (10). DST is largely owned by Tiger Fund, Goldman Sachs, and shady Alisher Usmanov (11), associate to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich (20).
In 2009, one year after Robertson invested in Palantir, DST invested $300 million into Facebook (12) through funds provided by Kremlin-owned Gazprom Investment Holding (18
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