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kpete

(72,904 posts) Fri Nov 10, 2017, 04:05 PM Nov 2017

WSJ: Data Firms WikiLeaks Outreach Came as It Joined Trump Campaign

Data Firm’s WikiLeaks Outreach Came as It Joined Trump Campaign
Cambridge Analytica said it reached out to Julian Assange to share Hillary Clinton-related emails in ‘early June 2016,’ when the company had already started working for the campaign
By Rebecca Ballhaus and Julie Bykowicz
Nov. 10, 2017 1:42 p.m. ET

The chief executive of Cambridge Analytica contacted the founder of WikiLeaks to ask him to share Hillary Clinton-related emails at the same time that people familiar with the matter say the British data-analytics firm had begun working for President Donald Trump’s campaign.

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WSJ: Data Firms WikiLeaks Outreach Came as It Joined Trump Campaign (Original Post) kpete Nov 2017 OP

The plot thickens.... The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2017 #1

There are so many traitors who sold our country to the enemy. BigmanPigman Nov 2017 #2

i wanna hang them from the damn washington monument. mopinko Nov 2017 #5

I wish you were the one deciding the sentence for each one. BigmanPigman Nov 2017 #6

seems to me mopinko Nov 2017 #7

Smells like another smoking gun to me. WSJ great job. Madam45for2923 Nov 2017 #3

Fake news. WSJ is a liberal rag Happyhippychick Nov 2017 #4

The Velveteen Ocelot

(131,240 posts)

1. The plot thickens....

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Fri Nov 10, 2017, 04:07 PM

Nov 2017

BigmanPigman

(55,527 posts)

2. There are so many traitors who sold our country to the enemy.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Fri Nov 10, 2017, 04:10 PM

Nov 2017

Life in prison is too kind as far as I am concerned.

mopinko

(73,940 posts)

5. i wanna hang them from the damn washington monument.

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #2)

Fri Nov 10, 2017, 04:36 PM

Nov 2017

and leave them there till the crows pick them clean.

BigmanPigman

(55,527 posts)

6. I wish you were the one deciding the sentence for each one.

Reply to mopinko (Reply #5)

Fri Nov 10, 2017, 05:28 PM

Nov 2017

Your idea is inspired!

mopinko

(73,940 posts)

7. seems to me

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #6)

Fri Nov 10, 2017, 08:15 PM

Nov 2017

that is the only way to clean the stain.

Madam45for2923

(7,178 posts)

3. Smells like another smoking gun to me. WSJ great job.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Fri Nov 10, 2017, 04:15 PM

Nov 2017

Happyhippychick

(8,422 posts)

4. Fake news. WSJ is a liberal rag

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Fri Nov 10, 2017, 04:21 PM

Nov 2017

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