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applegrove

(118,696 posts)
Thu Sep 21, 2017, 05:41 PM Sep 2017

Trump Campaign Had a Direct Connection to Facebook

https://politicalwire.com/2017/09/21/trump-campaign-direct-connection-facebook/

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Stephen Bannon told Vanity Fair that Jared Kushner, who oversaw the data operation of the Trump campaign, consulted regularly with Facebook director Peter Thiel:

When I asked Bannon about whether Thiel had some part in the data operation leading up to the election, he said, “When I joined the campaign, we were 16 points down and 85 days out. So I wasn’t working closely with Peter at that point.” He paused for a moment and then added, “Jared was interfacing with him pretty regularly.” On data?, I asked. “Data and other things. Ask Jared.” A source close to Kushner, however, denied that Thiel “worked with Jared on the campaign’s data operation.”

The role that data played in Trump’s victory appears to be of particular interest to legislators and prosecutors delving into the campaign’s interactions with Russian associates. As has been widely reported, separate probes, in the words of the McClatchy news service, have been “examining whether the Trump campaign’s digital operation—overseen by Jared Kushner—helped guide Russia’s sophisticated voter targeting and fake news attacks on Hillary Clinton in 2016.”



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Trump Campaign Had a Direct Connection to Facebook (Original Post) applegrove Sep 2017 OP
Bannon is up to burning everyone inside the Trump Campaign. Wellstone ruled Sep 2017 #1
Zuck basically admitted the Russians helped Trump Thrill Sep 2017 #2
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
1. Bannon is up to burning everyone inside the Trump Campaign.
Thu Sep 21, 2017, 05:45 PM
Sep 2017

This is one more smoking Gun. Theil is one nasty ass sucker. Only seen one interview with this Guy on Bloomberg early last year,and he came off as a spoiled rich Kid with a major chip on his shoulder.

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