The real locus of information that could bring down the Trump house of cards could be in what Brad Parscale is being asked to provide to the House judiciary committee.
2016’s perfect storm of Russian social media leveraging, the targeting of swing-state districts, and foreign influence on GOP activity could come in the intersection of financial information, transfers, and contacts among the various data targeting subcontractors.
Imagine what the Paul Manafort period of the Trump campaign included because it wasn’t just the transfer of polling data to a known agent of the GRU, but the perfect storm of CambAnal/SCL being connected to the Trump apparatus and then to the GOP as Steve Bannon becomes campaign head. The background to this 2016 activity is the simmering USIC knowledge (and DoJ’s FISA concerns about Russian activity) including Wikileaks being used as a GRU cutout.
It’s not only the paths of voter/user data, but the paths of payments for services rendered by the targeting subcontractors of which there were more than a few in 2016 working for the Trump campaign
This is where even with William Barr’s possible suppression of the Mueller Report, how #TrumpRussia will get to the public record and without classified redaction. This information will fit into a timeline only hinted by some as “increased server activity” between US servers and Russian bank servers.
(2018)
The ranking members of the House Oversight and Judiciary committees want to subpoena two of the data firms hired by President Donald Trump's campaign team for documents related to their potential engagement with foreign actors like Russia and WikiLeaks during the election.
Reps. Elijah Cummings and Jerry Nadler sent a letter to Cambridge Analytica's CEO Alexander Nix and Giles-Parscale cofounder Brad Parscale - who also served as the Trump campaign's digital director - in October. The letter asked whether their firms received "information from a foreign government or foreign actor" at any point during the election.
The letter was also sent to the heads of Deep Root Analytics, TargetPoint Consulting, and The Data Trust, which were among the outfits hired by the Republican National Committee to bolster the Trump campaign's data operation.
Whereas Deep Root, TargetPoint, and The Data Trust responded to the documents request, Cambridge Analytica did not. Parscale's response, moreover, was insufficient, the Democrats said.
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Parscale and Cambridge Analytica have come under the microscope as congressional investigators probe whether voter information stolen by Russian hackers from election databases in several states made its way to the Trump campaign. Investigators are also examining whether the Trump campaign's data firms coordinated with Russia to disseminate fake news and propaganda in particular states and districts.
The data operation Parscale directed was supervised by Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who has landed in Mueller's crosshairs over his contacts with Russia's ambassador and the CEO of a sanctioned Russian bank in December.
The Trump campaign hired Cambridge Analytica in June 2016 to help target ads using voter data collected from approximately 230 million US adults. The firm's CEO, Alexander Nix, reached out to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that month to offer help in finding Hillary Clinton's "missing" emails.