Trump/Russia/SDNY investigation
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The thing this whole story about Cambridge Analytica tells me is that if they could use Facebook to make these profiles I'm certain Russian counter intelligence was able to do the same. This might have been a war on many fronts and Facebook allowed it all to happen with their lackluster attitude to protecting the privacy of their users.
Still the question remains if they were really involved with Turmps team or did just support the candidate they knew would cause the most unrest in the US society.
Wow
Load of bullshit from him.
There's a BBC video of an interview with the lady who ran the PR side of the Trump Campaign who explained that Facebook sent their own guys down to the offices to work with Cambridge Analytica and Trump Campaign analysts to extract everything they could from the datasets they had harvested from Facebook.
When asked why Facebook would do that she said "we were ploughing 10's of millions there way making 10's of thousands of adverts every day so they were doing everything they could to help us, that included sending their own guys in to help us"
The idea that Facebook is somehow a victim in this is farcical.
Also
That’s a pretty good rant.
The state of this, he hated it when it wasn’t his idea and then loved it and came up with the expression when he heard the reaction.
“A couple of you are a little marginal about this, but I came up with this expression, it’s called ‘drain the swamp,’ right, drain the swamp. And I hated it, I hated it. And it was a speech during the campaign, and it was a term that was actually given to me, usually like to think them up myself, but this was given to me — which bothered me too. I never like that.
But they had this expression ‘drain the swamp.’ And I hated it, I thought it was so hokey. I said, ‘that is the hokiest, give me a break, I am embarrassed to say it.’ And I was in Florida where 25,000 people were going wild, and I said, ‘and we will drain the swamp’ — the place went crazy. I couldn’t believe it. And then the next speech I said it again and they went even crazier. ‘We will drain the swamp… we will drain the swamp,’ and every time I said it I got the biggest applause. And after four or give times I said, boy what a great expression, I love saying it, it’s amazing.”
“A couple of you are a little marginal about this, but I came up with this expression, it’s called ‘drain the swamp,’ right, drain the swamp. And I hated it, I hated it. And it was a speech during the campaign, and it was a term that was actually given to me, usually like to think them up myself, but this was given to me — which bothered me too. I never like that.
But they had this expression ‘drain the swamp.’ And I hated it, I thought it was so hokey. I said, ‘that is the hokiest, give me a break, I am embarrassed to say it.’ And I was in Florida where 25,000 people were going wild, and I said, ‘and we will drain the swamp’ — the place went crazy. I couldn’t believe it. And then the next speech I said it again and they went even crazier. ‘We will drain the swamp… we will drain the swamp,’ and every time I said it I got the biggest applause. And after four or give times I said, boy what a great expression, I love saying it, it’s amazing.”
Thread about Cambridge Analytica, Trump, Flynn and Facebook
It really does feel like we’re all just living in some insane film plot at the minute. The entire web is so huge and yet so intricate.
When the eventual screen play comes out, only 3 or 4 seasons of 12+ episodes is going to suffice.
And yet the poisonous little dwarf had the temerity to fire him for “a lack of candour”.
There are some who believe this was leaked by the WH so Trump will have clear "cause" to fire Sessions for the same misconduct that Sessions alleged against McCabe. Trump appoints new AG to shut down the Mueller investigation.
Not sure if that would work as anything Trump does to remove Sessions, however legitimate, will immediately be seen as an attempt to obstruct justice by having the next unrecused AG fire Mueller. I still think Trump will try at some point, but process is at the moment sufficiently advanced to where any attempt to stop Mueller will be broadly viewed as Trump shutting down an investigation that is getting too close to the truth (obstruction of justice).
I hope you're right but considering how silent the majority of Republican leaders were when Trump attacked Mueller over the weekend, I have next to zero faith that they will do anything to stop Trump shutting down the Mueller investigation. I'm just too jaded at this point.
Republicans were actually fairly vocal - Flake, Rubio, Graham, Corker, McCain, even McConnell and Ryan said Mueller should continue his job. Now that they are on record, they wont be able to back out if something happens.
Even though Sessions is a cnut he has a lot of friends in the senate and the house still. Trump has very few.
Besides, Trump's getting blocked in as he has fewer and fewer people he can nominate from (ie. his circle of loyalist/friends) -- or people he can rotate around from other departments considering the swamp folks he has 9who have been pissing taxpayers money away.)
He's not actually.
He wasn't there sitting next to OJ to talk about baseball cards.
That's actually Peter Neufeld not Derschowitz, although the latter was obviously also on team in a limited capacity.
Can anyone smell the burning of evidence?
Can anyone smell the burning of evidence?
Could also be a police effort to evacuate the building and ensure evidence isn't undermined. Considering the police are the only ones allowed inside the building.
Something obviously questionable about publicly announcing you'd be seeking the right to go through all their data days before you actually do. Surely they've already gotten rid of the worst of it
My bad. Selected the wrong photo of Derschowitz next to OJ.
Yep - Derschowitz is white.
Most of OJ's lawyers looked like they were cast from a Beastie Boys video.
Dowd's gone
We're pretty close to the big event now, I'd imagine. Everything is falling into place for Trump to make his play.
He may well try during the congressional recess.
What's likely behind this? Has he had enough or has he been pushed?
He obviously disagrees with the direction Trump is taking the legal strategy in, with the hiring of Di Geonova and his recent unhinged tweeting about Mueller.