Just. Wow. wrote:
Ha! Oh yes- now it's the Cambridge story! That'll bring Trump down!
You guys crack me up.
Yes, it will be piece of the puzzle bringing Trump down. A big piece. But I'm guessing you still just don't get it.
Here are some Clif notes (courtesy of a Sara Danner Dukic twitter thread) for you:
SCL (Strategic Communication Laboratories) created CA (Cambridge Analytica).
CA ILLEGALLY scraped data from Facebook (FB). FB knew it was stolen, looked the other way.
Mercer family promised Trump boatloads of money at a time (primaries) when he cash strapped if they hired CA and Bannon.
CA as well as Alfa Bank, Trump Tower, Silicon Valley Bank, Spectrum Health were all communicating with each other. Moving illegal data and adding more illegal data (voter registration information plus all of the information 'stolen' from FB).
Ran ads disguised as news stories. Linked to fake news, fake sites. Key: target very specific voters. Then watch and track what the targets did with the information. Continue targeting. Over and over. New audience is created.
Trump's speeches matched up with the ads. Trump didn't need to use/spend as much on typical forms of media, such as TV.
Army of bots and trolls giving the appearance that many others agreed with the message. Promoted violence, fake events.
Russia was given the data to create fake news and disinformation targeted at specific voters and not just Trump voters. They worked the left, focusing on Sanders' supporters.
Ran information to discredit our own intelligence community.
SCL was given a huge contract after the inauguration with our state department.
/Clif notes.
Key emphasis - we're talking ILLEGAL gathering of data.
BTW, conservative Never Trumpers brought up the Cambridge Analytica connection months ago, some over a year ago.
Russia has been disrupting politics across the world. F*cking with the US election was a big operation. It worked. But in the end Russia will face stiffer sanctions. Rule of law will prevail. Many thanks to our allies who have shared intelligence with us. The western democracies are pissed at Putin. Trump not so much. We'll rejoin our allies when Trump is removed from office.
Russia wanted a US president that would be sympathetic to Russia (i.e., lift sanctions). Clinton would have been the worse scenario for Putin. She would have been hard on Russia. Trump was the perfect patsy, as they have kompromat (no pee tape - it's much worse plus years of money laundering for Russian oligarchs). It's so obvious... Trump hasn't implemented the sanctions voted on by the Senate (only 2 Senators didn't support it, including... Sanders). Trump just congratulated Putin on his win despite the election being a farce. Has Trump ever condemned the nerve agent poisoning that occurred in the UK - our closest ally??? Absolute craziness. Any sane person is wondering why the GOP has already started the impeachment process based on obstruction of justice alone. Why? Many are complicit. GOP took Russia $$. NRA took Russia $$. As the Channel 4 expose revealed, there is likely kompromat on politicians from both sides of the isle.
I challenge Trumpers to watch the two part expose on Cambridge Analytica from Channel 4 in London:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy-9iciNF1A&disable_polymer=true