This story was published by theCenter for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington. John Bolton needed billionaire Robert Mercer’s attention and support—so badly that Bolton spent more than $1 million of his super PAC’s money on “comically bad” data from Mercer’s now-defunct voter profiling firm, Cambridge Analytica.

The Real Value of Cambridge Analytica

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