Now I can think of a new âCâ word when I see a picture of this weasel.
âAny claims that voter data from any other source played a key role in the victory here are false,â it said.
Really?!? but what aboutâŚ
Trump: This is yet another embarrassment for Hillary and Obama. So many wrong things could be done under their noses. SAD!
The Trump campaign is now distancing itself from the data firm in light of the Assange news. Wednesday afternoon, after the Daily Beast story was published, Trump campaign executive director Michael Glassner issued a statement that did not mention Cambridge Analytica by name, but stressed instead its data partnership with the Republican National Committee.
WTF?
Could we get a link to the whole statement?
Right on cue, âwe donât even know Cambridge Analytica, even though we paid them $5.9 million and their data âguruâ has been touted by us as pivotal in winning⌠until nowâ.
And letâs not lose sight of what the request is, seeking out stolen data (aka fruits of committing a crime).
And Trump calls this all âfake newsâ in 3âŚ2âŚ
The fact that the Trump campaign paid Cambridge Analytica $5.9 million (oh, right,mislabeled forms filed with the FEC - Iâm sure theyâll be submitting corrected forms soon), that the Mercers dumped in who knows how many $$millions, and that Cambridge Analytica âscientistsâ were embedded with the campaign IT and social media group is just an excuse by Democrats and Hillary for losing the election. This is a hoax.
We have confirmed the approach and rejection only. Not the subject. - Assange
Iâll remove the cause. But not the symptoms. â Dr. Frank-n-Furter
From Wired: August 2016:
Still, Parscale is satisfied that the investment in digital produced a serious return for Trump in July. He declined to say what percentage of the $80 million raised was the result of the surge in digital ad spending. But it seems unlikely the campaign will let up on the digital front. Trumpâs new campaign CEO, Steve Bannon, has spent the last few years sitting atop a far-right digital media empire. He seems to know how the web works. And finally Trump seems ready to spend the money to make the web work for him, if itâs not already too late.
Cambridge? No, no. I went to a very good school. I went to Wharton. Never been to Cambridge. I donât go there. Nope. Believe me.
Michael S. Glassner, Executive Director of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., issued the following statement:
âOnce President Trump secured the nomination in 2016, one of the most important decisions we made was to partner with the Republican National Committee on data analytics. Leading into the election, the RNC had invested in the most sophisticated data targeting program in modern American history, which helped secure our victory in the fall. We were proud to have worked with the RNC and its data experts and relied on them as our main source for data analytics.
âWe as a campaign made the choice to rely on the voter data of the Republican National Committee to help elect President Donald J. Trump. Any claims that voter data from any other source played a key role in the victory are false.â
Holy fucking shit. Even by the blackwhite reality control Minitrue standards of the Trump Administration, that is just one breathtakingly brazen attempt to falsify objective reality. Iâm literally sitting here with my mouth hanging open.
Thanks for doing that, but Jesus . . .
Yeah, thatâs a federal crime.
I think I just spotted another weasel word.
Iâm pretty sure I saw Assange play one of the bad guys in the DaVinci Code. The cops got him in the end. Need I say more.
Just another creepy egotist.
I saw sometime in the last few months, a video with an interview of a woman who worked for the campaign talking about how the T/P folks were working in rooms with computer banks side-by-side with Facebook folks. I feel like she was either a Cambridge Analytica employee or mentioned them. Anyone else see this? Was it on 60 Minutes?
Then thereâs this:
but but butâŚuranium or emails or somethingâŚ
Is that the program that leaked the entirety of their voter data on the web so âanyoneâ (cough, Russia) could get free access to it?
Peopleâs exhibit A, roll the tape: âRussia, if youâre listeningâŚâ