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Jane Mayer Biography

Jane Meredith Mayer (born 1955) is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1995. In recent years, she has written for that publication on money in politics, government prosecution of whistleblowers, the United States Predator drone program, Donald Trump's ghostwriter, and President Trump's financial backer, Robert Mercer. In 2016, Mayer's book Dark Money, in which she investigated the history of the right-wing billionaire network centered around the Koch brothers, was published to critical acclaim.

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The smaller the office, the more power individuals with big money have.

Office, Individual, Bigs, Power, Smaller

They [the Kochs] want free trade and cheap labour. They own the second-largest private company in America, which is a huge multinational corporation. So they are on a different wavelength.

America, Different, Free, Huge, Wavelength

[Tom] Steyer is specifically spending money on candidates who will take action against climate change.

Action, Climate, Money, Specifically, Spending, Take

In fact, Charles Koch tried to get [Mike] Pence to run for the White House in 2012.

House, Run, Running, Tried, White

[Donald] Trump comes along and is singing a different song. He says, "I don't need your money; I'm rich enough on my own to run. " And he says, "I think we need these programs. " And, lo and behold, a lot of Republican voters liked what he said.

Behold, Rich, Running, Singing, Song, Thinking

The fear is that we'll move in the direction from being a democracy to an oligarchy.

Democracy, Direction, Moving, Oligarchy

The Kochs have been activists since the 1970s. You can go back and look at the platform of the Libertarian Party in 1980 and see what they really believe in. They wanted to abolish huge swaths of the U. S. government, including the Internal Revenue Service. They want to get rid of Social Security. They'd like to get rid of Medicare. They'd like to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency, which directly affects their business.

Abolish, Agency, Believe, Party, Protection, Security

Money has much more power down the ballot.

Ballots, Down, Ballot, Money, Power

What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos.

Acts, Criminal, Criminals, Make, Memos, Prior

We would see another president being accused of being illegitimate, and undermined from day one, which is exactly what these donors did to [Barack] Obama.

Accused, Being Accused, Donors, Illegitimate, President, See

Torture is illegal, both in the U. S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.

Abroad, Administration, Bush, Illegal, Torture

The world's a small place and people are watching; and, you know, somebody disappears, the family knows and their colleagues know, and so eventually, these things do get out.

Disappear, Knows, People, Place, Watching, World

People I've interviewed say they're terrified there may be boycotts of their [the Kochs] products, which include so many household items that everybody's familiar with, things like Stainmaster Carpet and Dixie Cups and Brawny paper towels and Lycra.

People, Paper Towels, Dixie, Cups, Familiar, Paper

The book that I wrote is called Dark Money, and it's about secret spending that is very hard to follow. [George] Soros's whole thing is about government transparency, so he spends very much in the open, and the same with [Tom] Steyer.

Book, Dark, Government, Thing, Whole

I kept thinking maybe in the future editions [of Dark Money] I should sell it along with, like, some kind of, you know, Pepto Bismol or something. I wanted it to read a little bit like a thriller, so that it truly grabbed people.

Dark, Thinking, People, Kept, Know, Money

It's hard to look at [Donald] Trump as a hopeful sign because, in his own way, he is offering false solutions to many problems.

False, Hopeful, Looks, Offering, Solutions

This year [2016] we're seeing a really strange upending [of the party]. The money was coming from these super-wealthy donors who were really on the far, hard right, people like the Kochs. So the party and the candidates moved so far to the right that a lot of people who don't share their point of view were unhappy.

2016, Party, Right, View, Views, Years

There have been waves of reform in the past. I see no reason why they wouldn't happen again.

Happen, Past, Reason, Reason Why, Reform, See

It's hard for them to run away from their record. The Kochs are businessmen.

Businessman, Businessmen, Kochs, Records, Run, Running

And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program said that they also, to create anxiety and upset in the soldiers, they take Bibles and they trash them.

Anxiety, Create, Interesting, People, Said, Trash

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