13-02-2018, 03:18 PM
Lauren Johnson Wrote:Tracy,
Would you mind specifying how you think the Russians interred in the elections? This is not a trolling question btw? I just need some clarity from you.
Lauren, we don't know all the details yet, but I've tried to collect what I can in the Red Don thread...
https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/sho...oLxbZ3wayc
...and to a lesser extent the Fake News for the Win thread.
https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/sho...oLyo53wayc
But briefly: accepting laundered Russian money into GOP campaign coffers; data mining, fake news stories in US social media, disseminating hacked emails, attempting to break into local voting computer systems, meeting with Trump campaign officials. That's what we know so far.
"The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has requested that a data analytics company called Cambridge Analytica turn over internal documents as part of its investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. Cambridge Analytica specializes in what's called "psychographic" profiling, meaning they use data collected online to create personality profiles for voters. They then take that information and target individuals with specifically tailored content"
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/...ynn-russia
"Donald Trump and the political action committees for Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Lindsey Graham, John Kasich and John McCain accepted $7.35 million in contributions from a Ukrainian-born oligarch who is the business partner of two of Russian president Vladimir Putin's favorite oligarchs and a Russian government bank."
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comme...-campaigns
"Perhaps it's a coincidence that so much of the information in question was republished on a website called HelloFLA by a Florida Republican and former congressional staffer named Aaron Nevins, who was connected to Trump associate and longtime political operative Roger Stone. It could be completely random that among the core group of Mueller antagonists, those calling the probe a "coup d'état" and demanding purges of members of the "deep state" are Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who proposed that Mueller's funding be cut off, and the aforementioned Rep. Francis Rooney, who's been all over TV talking about purging the FBI. Indeed, as journalist Marcy Wheeler pointed out a while back, one of the ringleaders of the movement to discredit the Department of Justice and Robert Mueller, Rep. DeSantis, directly benefited from Guccifer 2.0's leak to Nevins after the latter published five documents regarding the DCCC's recruitment of DeSantis' Democratic opponent, George Pappas. According to The Wall Street Journal, Guccifer 2.0 even sent a link with a HelloFLA article directly to Roger Stone, who told reporters he didn't forward the hacked material to anyone -- the answer to a question nobody asked. If Mueller's team is looking into the digital operation and Roger Stone's interactions with Guccifer 2.0, as one would expect them to do, then these shenanigans in Florida are also coming into view. That may explain why this little circle of Sunshine State GOP congressmen are so anxious to shut him down."
https://www.salon.com/2017/12/28/why-are...b-mueller/