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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBoombedyboomboom: Trump Donor Asked Data Firm If It Could Better Organize Hacked Emails
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/trump-donor-asked-data-firm-if-it-could-better-organize-hacked-emails-1509133587Trump donor Rebekah Mercer in August 2016 asked the chief executive of a data-analytics firm working for Donald Trumps presidential campaign whether the company could better organize the Hillary Clinton -related emails being released by WikiLeaks, according to a person familiar with their email exchange.
The previously undisclosed details from the exchange between Ms. Mercer and Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix show how an influential Trump supporter was looking to leverage the hacked Clinton-related messages to boost Mr. Trumps campaign.
Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Mr. Nix emailed Ms. Mercer and some company employees that he had reached out to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to offer help organizing the Clinton-related emails the website was releasing. The new details shed light on the timing of Mr. Nixs outreach to Mr. Assange, which came before his company began working for the Trump campaign.
On Aug. 26, 2016, roughly a month after Mr. Trump formally became the Republican nominee, Ms. Mercer passed along to Mr. Nix an email she had received from a person she met at an event supporting Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), whose presidential campaign she had initially supported during the GOP primaries, the person familiar with the exchange said. The emails author suggested to Ms. Mercer that the Trump campaign or an allied super PAC ought to better index the WikiLeaks emails to make them more searchable, the person said.
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Boombedyboomboom: Trump Donor Asked Data Firm If It Could Better Organize Hacked Emails (Original Post)
deminks
Oct 2017
OP
So ... conspiring to deal in stolen property ? Hasn't she actually violated a law somewhow ?
eppur_se_muova
Oct 2017
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malaise
(269,187 posts)1. Get thee to the greatest page
Oh My!
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)2. Hard to fence the stolen property if it's in a big jumble.
Mr. Mueller, please please please send Ms Mercer to jail.
SunSeeker
(51,726 posts)3. K & R for exposure.
eppur_se_muova
(36,299 posts)4. So ... conspiring to deal in stolen property ? Hasn't she actually violated a law somewhow ?
Lawyers please chime in on this one !
If a major Repug donor goes to jail it would do as much to mark the Repugs as a criminal enterprise than any number of politicians being forced to resign.