Mueller, House Investigating Trump Campaign Data Hacks Re Wikileaks, Russia
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has requested that Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that worked for President Donald Trump’s campaign, turn over documents as part of its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, according to people familiar with the matter.
Mr. Mueller asked the firm in the fall to turn over the emails of any Cambridge Analytica employees who worked on the Trump campaign, in a sign that the special counsel is probing the Trump campaign’s data operation. The special counsel's request, which the firm complied with, wasn’t previously known. The emails had earlier been turned over to the House Intelligence Committee, the people said, adding that both requests were voluntary.
On Thursday, Cambridge Analytica Chief Executive Alexander Nix interviewed via videoconference with the House Intelligence Committee , according to a person familiar with the matter.
Mr. Mueller’s request for employee emails was made before media outlets reported in October that Mr. Nix had contacted WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange during the 2016 campaign , according to a person familiar with the matter. The Sweden-based WikiLeaks last year published a trove of Hillary Clinton -related emails that U.S. intelligence agencies later determined had been stolen by Russian intelligence and given to the website.
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Trump has shown us exactly how morally bankrupt the Republican party has become. They are even trying to discredit Mueller now. Putin is praising Trump and playing him like a fiddle, incredible...
Trump is a manifestation of what has become of the once Grand Old Party of Abraham Lincoln which is now commonly known as merely "the gop". A once proud party that has devolved unto the political home of zenophobic homophobic racist a-holes bent upon dragging America backwards as we expand the fake economic bubble which is bound to burst when investors recognize the damn gop's voodoo economic theories will not work, again. It is like Ground Hog Day and Deja Vu all over again and again as we repeatedly let the damn gop drive our economy back into the ground. Who will pay? The Poor and the Middle Class. Who will profit? Those already increadibly wealthy and powerful. Who ultimately loses most? The American People who have been again and again been convinced to vote against their own best interests by a damn lying mind free small g gop. Morally, socially, economiclly, politically the damn gop devolved and wants the rest of America to goose step backwards to the tune of "It's Springtime for fascist in Trumperland. Sinclair Lewis was a prophet. Fascism came to America dragging a cross and waving the flag. Tribalism and right wing symbolism have trumped to good will and common sense of a historically astute American electorate thanks to the powers that be being able to control the message to the extent that People vote in ways which not only do not help them but actually harm the body politic. History will not be kind to those who has enabled the huge mess we have now. Fortunately People can only be fooled some of the time. The gop will suffer reckonings. It won't be pretty and many will suffer but there is no avoiding the pain required to right the disaster Trump and the damn gop are inflicting upon America today...
Trump has turned out to be every bit as bad, or possibly even worse, than the worst fears of those opposed to Trump, but it doesn't matter, his support from most right wingers continues. They continue to believe in trickle down economics and continue voting against their own interests. I guess they always will. If we can't unite against the madman Trump, we will never come together as a country, it's truly hopeless. All we can do is make sure to get out and vote to minimize the damage, until the new generation puts an end to the gang of corporate thugs that used to be the GOP.
To paraphrase Ben Franklin on mad monarchs, "If we don't hang together against Trumpism we surely hang individually".
"He who troubleth his own house shall inherit the whirlwind" - Proverbs.
"A house divided against itself will not long stand" - Abraham Lincoln...
Things will get worse before they get better. The gop is out of control, in power and thirsty for the live blood of liberalism.