Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen hired an IT firm to rig early CNBC, Drudge polls

[mucifer]

In early 2015, a man who runs a small technology company showed up at Trump Tower to collect $50,000 for having helped Michael Cohen, then Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, try to rig online polls in his boss’s favor before the presidential campaign.

In his Trump Organization office, Mr. Cohen surprised the man, John Gauger, by giving him a blue Walmart bag containing between $12,000 and $13,000 in cash and, randomly, a boxing glove that Cohen said had been worn by a Brazilian mixed-martial arts fighter, Gauger said.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/poll-rigging-for-trump-and-creating-womenforcohen-one-it-firms-work-order-11547722801?mod=hp_lead_pos7

We kinda knew that it happened somehow.

[hlthe2b]

1. So, ya think Drudge will run this story?

[mucifer]

2. I am more curious about Rachel. It's her network. Will they allow her to??

[hlthe2b]

4. I think so... She (and others on MSNBC) have reported negative stories re: NBC on occasion

[lilactime]

12. I can't read the whole article - what does NBC have to do with it?

Thanks.

[LiberalArkie]

13. CNBC is owned by same company that owns NBC

[brooklynite]

3. If someone wants to waste money on meaningless internet polls...

...they're either incompetent or they have way too much money.

[hlthe2b]

5. Yeah... but we are talking RIGHTWING polls

[tanyev]

6. Sane, rational people know they're meaningless.

Donald Trump does not. Those polls were being influenced for an audience of one.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Unfortunately, You're Wrong

There are 10 to 20 million supporting PINO who are clueless as to the invalidity of internet polls.
So, those rigged numbers reinforced their desire to get out and vote for the moron, because "the internet says I'm right"
I wish you were right that is was just for the liar, but there's plenty of stupid out there!

[tanyev]

9. Yeah, I get that, too, but now that we've seen how obsessed Needy Amin is with polls and ratings,

I still think the primary objective was to suck up to him or cajole him into doing something.

[The Truth Is Here]

11. Fat Turnip

Is easily fooled.

[ProfessorGAC]

21. I'm With You

The audience of one thing has merit but as Boston Bean said, it's also useful as propaganda

[aggiesal]

22. Needy Amin ...

[boston bean]

7. It is a tool used to create a narrative of winning.

Group think takes hold. A false narrative is created and reinforced.

It is actually a very good propaganda tool.

[malaise]

10. THey stole it and we knew

Get thee to the greatest page. It was collusion on steroids among a variety of scumbags.

[LittleGirl]

14. +1 exactly. eom

[bigbrother05]

15. Two fold, provides cover for a stolen election and excuse to claim the Dems stole it

Same scheme the climate change deniers use. Tout the obvious outlier and the MSM will play the equivalence game.

[UTUSN]

16. Drudge polls *NEEDED* to be rigged?!1

[uponit7771]

17. WOW !!!

[Firestorm49]

18. Dribble

With all the news that has seeped out of the cracks with regard to this whole Trumpian nightmare, I’d be surprised if we even know 10% of the entire story.

Can’t wait for the other 90%.......fat chance, ha?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

19. Drudge's headline now about poll rig

https://www.drudgereport.com

[Scurrilous]

20. K&R

[aggiesal]

23. Talk about fake news ...

those internet polls are exactly that, FAKE NEWS!!!
And they created them.

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. "a boxing glove that Cohen said had been worn by a Brazilian mixed-martial arts fighter"

Not only was the US presidency sold, it was sold like it was an item in a garage sale.