Michael Cohen blames Trump for reported poll-rigging efforts
Source: Politico
By CAITLIN OPRYSKO 01/17/2019 09:58 AM EST
Michael Cohen, the former fixer for President Donald Trump, is deflecting responsibility for allegedly paying someone to rig online polls in Trumps favor, claiming in a tweet Thursday that his efforts were at the direction of and for the sole benefit of his boss.
Cohen was responding to a report in the Wall Street Journal that alleged Cohen owed money to the owner of a small tech company for creating a computer script aimed at boosting Trumps standing in two online polls in 2014 and 2015, before Trump declared his candidacy for president.
John Gauger, the owner of RedFinch Solutions LLC, was unsuccessful in his attempts to push Trump to the top of a CNBC poll about business leaders and a Drudge Report poll measuring support for potential GOP presidential contenders, and he told the Journal that Cohen only paid him about a quarter of the $50,000 he was owed.
Cohen was sentenced late last year to three years in prison for tax evasion, lying to Congress and campaign finance violations for paying hush money to women alleging affairs with Trump.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/17/cohen-trump-poll-rigging-1107596
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Rig the whole process. They constantly leverage all new technologies when possible.
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)I guess he can now just outsource such work to Russia.
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)It is a lifelong pattern
Liberty Belle
(9,535 posts)Are there federal or state statutes against using software programs to rig polls? Can someone cite the statutes?
I am arguing with a prominent conservative who claims no laws were broken and challenged me on social media to show what laws were broken.
LeftInTX
(25,383 posts)Unless there is some law about polls or telecom stuff
They have those kind of polls where you can get 100 of your friends to respond. (Like we do on DU)
If these are "real polls" then it would be unethical.
When I see the word, "Internet poll", I never know what to think.
standingtall
(2,785 posts)nt.
Harker
(14,024 posts)Wouldn't do for a complete outlier to pull off an obviously phony win at any level.