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- Years before backing Donald Trump, the Mercers helped support the
congressional campaign of Arthur Robinson, who attempted to oust Rep.
Peter DeFazio. Robinson made for an unusual candidate. He is a climate
change denier who speaks about the positive effects of nuclear
radiation. Robinson runs the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine,
which stores some 14,000 samples of human urine. Robinson has said he is
trying to find new ways of extending the human lifespan. The Mercers
funded Robinson’s campaign and institute. The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer
reports the Mercers also pushed to have Trump name Robinson as his
science adviser. Jane Mayer writes about Robinson in her new piece, "The
Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency: How Robert
Mercer exploited America’s populist insurgency."