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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums***Cambridge Analytica was meeting w/ Corey Lewandowski in 2015 before Trump had even announced***
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NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)I know they worked for Ted Cruz initially, then jumped to Trump when Cruz was too far behind to compete
erronis
(15,302 posts)MelissaB
(16,420 posts)Just to add to this, Bannon was on the (still cryptic) board of Cambridge Analytica. All of his companiesBreitbart, his shadowy production company Glittering Steel (which boosted the Uranium One conspiracy theory in their movie Clinton Cash)shared a U.S. address with Cambridge.
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MelissaB
(16,420 posts)erronis
(15,302 posts)Of course, good criminals already know to do this.
Sloppy and lazy ones think no one can possibly match their postal addresses, their web site IPs, their email servers, their writing styles and content, their time-zones, their links to others.
Fortunately many of us are becoming much better at tracking fakers. ProPublica is good. Wikileeks not so much.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)Worked with Russia to provide propaganda against US voters
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower says company worked with Corey Lewandowski, Steve Bannon
https://www.today.com/video/cambridge-analytica-whistleblower-says-the-company-worked-with-trump-campaign-strategist-and-steve-bannon-1189326915651
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,005 posts)So, yes, the OP is news.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)It stands to reason that those in the Mercer orbit will be found to have involvement. Not really interested in your parsing today.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,623 posts)But with FB's awareness (but not exlplicit approval) for two years; Cambride Analytica met with a Russian Oil company that inquired about obtaining voting/political data on US voters back in 2013 - THAT's big news that wasn't known before this story came out.
poboy2
(2,078 posts)There is a common purpose for saying them.
Dissuade or dismiss unfavorable or undesirable facts.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)this lays it to rest.
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)I didn't see his name mentioned in the stories that came out this weekend, but I know I read that Jared was meeting with them during the transition after the election. Also in the first days of Trump's presidency, when we learned that Jared asked for a backchannel connection to Russia. During that time he was taking meetings at CA, and we don't know why.
I hope Mueller is looking into this. Certainly it has to do with Mercer's money and probably Russian involvement somehow.
neohippie
(1,142 posts)Perseus
(4,341 posts)Corey Lewandowski says he doesn't know who they are....Who are you going to believe?
The fact that they were meeting before the man-child announced his un for the presidency doesn't mean they were not already planning their scam...
Muller, why are you taking so long? Please...get it over with.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,623 posts)Won't you join me in making these hashtags trend?