“Shared internal polling data with the Russians.” If only there were a shorter phrase for this type of activity.
How about “ITMFA”?
As luck would have it, there is a shorter phrase, in fact a word, treason.
Starts with ‘c’ and ends with ‘n’.
Collusion? Corruption?
“Share the poll! Share the poll!”
-latest Trump rally chant
Smoking gun?
In an exclusive interview with NBC News, Jeanette Manfra, the head of cyber security at the Department of Homeland Security, said she couldn’t talk about classified information publicly, but in 2016, “We saw a targeting of 21 states and an exceptionally small number of them were actually successfully penetrated.”
Jeh Johnson, who was DHS secretary during the Russian intrusions, said, “2016 was a wake-up call and now it’s incumbent upon states and the Feds to do something about it before our democracy is attacked again.”
“We were able to determine that the scanning and probing of voter registration databases was coming from the Russian government.”
Hackers with ties to the Russian government successfully altered voter information stole thousands of voter records containing private information during attempts to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Time reported.
According to current and former officials who spoke with Time, hackers targeting local election databases were able to modify voter rolls in at least one instance and made off with information including partial Social Security numbers belonging to registered voters.
Putin’s hackers needed to know which swing state vote totals to manipulate by how much, and the troll farms needed to know where to focus the lies and vote suppression efforts in social media.
Even if they were doing it to no effect they were committing a federal crime. You don’t coordinate with non-US players. Period. (An acquaintance who worked for rudi back in his prosecutor days once had a case where the perps tried to claim they hadn’t committed insider trading because they lost money on their inside info. Didn’t fly.)
The treason runs deeper than what many of us of us had dared to fathom. Manafort pretty much delivered the US with the methods he’d honed in the Ukraine.
I’ve always wondered who fed the Russians the information they needed to infiltrate those swing states. There’s no way you would know enough about American politics and elections as a foreign national to target things that expertly unless you had lived here for decades. I guess we know who the culprit was now.
and will be denied and downplayed by the GOP power structure to the bitter end
“It would be a very good thing if every trick could receive some short and obviously appropriate name, so that when a man used this or that particular trick, he could be at once reproached for it.”
– Melania Trump
How about starts with a ‘C’ and ends with a ‘y’?
And for the umpteenth time, and at the full pitch of my lungs:
MANAFORT CHOSE PENCE.
Thank you, that is all.
The coffee boy of the campaign gives a sheet of paper with some meaningless numbers scribbled on it to some self-important loser from a poor and technologically primitive country and liberals all go AHA as if they have discovered a secret vault with tons of cash.
That’s really the point. It’s not that they sent out internal polling data. The only reason to not share internal polling data is that you want to keep secret anything that might help your opponent. For this to matter, we have to make a further (though quite reasonable) assumption that when the Trump Campaign sent its internal polling data to Russia, it expected to get something from doing that. Otherwise, why do it? And that, the “expecting something back” is where they have a problem.
Wow. Trump must be really really upset that his campaign manager betrayed him by stealing his internal polling data and transferring it to a hostile foreign power. I guess a pardon is now out of the question, as he will never forgive him.
Right?