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rainbow4321

(9,974 posts)
5. Yup...Mercers, Cambridge Analytica, Parscale, Project Alamo...
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 12:15 AM
Jul 2017

Parscale gave a lot of interviews post election....and he was bringing Kushner name up ALL the time..crediting Kushner for all things data. The one interivew that Kushner gave about the data end of it all was for Forbes magazine..and while he talked about Project Alamo, he left out any mention of Cambridge Analytica involvement.
You have to wonder...with all of the stories about how Trump would make everyone and their dog sign non-disclosure agreements in his life...why did he not make the data department (aka Parscale and everyone else with Project Alamo) sign a non disclosure? Cuz Parscale was all over the place talking about how Project Alamo was about voter influence, data gathering, and voter suppression after the election was over.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-the-trump-bunker-with-12-days-to-go

As Kushner, who shares his father-in-law’s disdain for political professionals, became more active in the campaign’s operations, Parscale emerged from among dozens of vendors into a unique role. “Once Jared found Brad,” says a campaign official, “we were able to avoid building a big team and ran a lot of our back end through his office in San Antonio.”

After Trump won the Indiana primary, vanquishing his remaining rivals, Parscale had to integrate his do-it-yourself operation with two established players who would jostle for primacy as supplier of Trump’s data. The first was Cambridge Analytica, on whose board Bannon sits. Among its investors is the hedge fund titan Robert Mercer and his daughter, Rebekah, who were about to become some of the largest donors to the Trump cause. Locations for the candidate’s rallies, long the centerpiece of his media-centric candidacy, are guided by a Cambridge Analytica ranking of the places in a state with the largest clusters of persuadable voters. The other was the Republican National Committee, to which Trump relinquished control over many of its tactical decisions. “

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In June, Parscale granted his first national interview, to Wired, to preemptively explain why the Federal Election Commission was about to report that an unknown agency in San Antonio was the Trump campaign’s largest vendor. In August, Giles-Parscale handled $9 million in business from Trump’s campaign; two months later, the company’s total haul had cleared $50 million, most of it money passing through to online ad networks at little markup. Parscale was delivering his services at such a discount that Kushner even worried that the agency’s efforts might have to be classified as an in-kind contribution. “Jared’s a big part of what gave me my power and ability to do what I’ve been doing,” says Parscale, who sees himself as more than just a staffer. “Because you know what I was willing to do? I was willing to do it like family.”

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K&R Guy Whitey Corngood Jul 2017 #1
K&R Solly Mack Jul 2017 #2
Kushner and Mercer? Wellstone ruled Jul 2017 #3
Wow YCHDT Jul 2017 #4
Yup...Mercers, Cambridge Analytica, Parscale, Project Alamo... rainbow4321 Jul 2017 #5
Thank you, Wellstone ruled Jul 2017 #6
Their parent company has a US State Dept contract rainbow4321 Jul 2017 #7
When someone can Pirate a E-mail and Wellstone ruled Jul 2017 #8
Damn...now imagine Trump/Russia doing this via our State Dept. rainbow4321 Jul 2017 #9
My take is,we should have seen this coming . Wellstone ruled Jul 2017 #10
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