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[mfcorey1]

Michael Cohen confirms he paid tech firm to rig polls and says Trump directed him to do it


Wall Street Journal scoop indicates the then–Trump ally hired firm founded by Liberty University’s chief information officer to fix online polls in Trump’s favor in 2015

Michael Cohen, whose longtime role in the Trump Organization is alternately described as lawyer and fixer but whose main function since leaving the president’s orbit is arguably an antithesis of both, has responded to a Thursday scoop in which the Wall Street Journal reported Cohen engaged a technology firm to fix online polling in Trump’s favor with a sort of confession to Twitter.

His tweet, indeed, went further, not only admitting to the act, but pointing unequivocally at his then-boss as having directed it:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/michael-cohen-confirms-he-paid-tech-firm-to-rig-polls-and-says-trump-directed-him-to-do-it-2019-01-17?mod=mw_share_facebook&fbclid=IwAR3f6eyEhS5fFaXoKUsr9AHl60txffW0aYht8UIfwjEQowCNzqW_x9ckdUY

[2naSalit]

1. K&R

[Garrett78]

2. Online polls are worthless, which is why they rarely get any coverage.

[keithbvadu2]

3. Yep! There are many polls.

Yep! There are many polls.

Pick the one you like and swear by it.

Swear at the others.

[Garrett78]

4. The polls that get attention (at 538, RCP, etc.) are, for the most part, meaningful and telling.

But the post-debate Twitter polls ('Who do you think won the debate?'), as an example, are a joke. They can, of course, influence gullible people (thus the Trump people manipulating them), but there's a reason those aren't the types of polls the likes of Harry Enten and Steve Kornacki talk about.