• Dot 1
from theguardian.com — 10-25-2017
A data-mining firm that worked for Donald Trump’s election campaign made an approach to WikiLeaks, founder Julian Assange said on Wednesday.
The statement followed a report in the Daily Beast that Cambridge Analytica chief executive Alexander Nix made contact with Assange about the possible release of 33,000 of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s missing emails.
• Dot 2
from thehill.com — 10-27-2017
A top donor to President Trump’s 2016 election effort asked the campaign's data firm if it could help organize hacked emails released by WikiLeaks on Hillary Clinton, according to a new report.
A source familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal that Rebekah Mercer, a billionaire supporter of Trump, exchanged emails with Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix about the hacked emails.
• Dot 3
from theguardian.com — 5-14-2017
But this signed legal document — a document that was never meant to be made public and was leaked by a concerned source — connects both Vote Leave and Leave.EU’s data firms directly to Robert Mercer, the American billionaire who bankrolled Donald Trump.
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This created a binding “exclusive” “worldwide” agreement “in perpetuity” for all of AggregateIQ’s intellectual property to be used by SCL Elections (a British firm that created Cambridge Analytica with Mercer).
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The link between Cambridge Analytica and AggregateIQ was never supposed to come to light.
• Dot 4
from the businessinsider.com — 7-10-2017
Donald Trump Jr. said he met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya last June at Trump Tower to discuss compromising information she said she had on Hillary Clinton, but was disappointed when she changed the subject to Russia's adoption policy.
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Veselnitskaya would have had her own motivations for pivoting from promises of dirt on Clinton to a discussion of Russia's adoption policy, which was altered to bar American families from adopting Russian children in retaliation for the signing of the Magnitsky Act in 2012.
• Dot 5
from the independent.co.uk — 10-28-2017
The Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr in June 2016 shared the information she was going to give the campaign with the Kremlin first.
According to the New York Times, Natalia Veselnitskaya was reportedly going to give President Donald Trump’s son information she thought would be disparaging to then-candidate Hillary Clinton.
It was a memo she had apparently shared with Russian prosecutor general Yuri Chaika months before.
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That revelation is contradictory to Ms Veselnitskaya’s claim she was acting independent of the Kremlin when she had a third party reach out to the Trump family and ultimately met with the younger Trump, son-in-law Jared Kushner, and then-campaign manager Paul Manafort.
• Dot 6
from the businessinsider.com — 10-27-2017
Russia's top prosecutor [Yuri Chaika] and "master of kompromat" has been working since at least last year to overturn legislation passed by President Barack Obama in 2012 that levied punishing sanctions and travel restrictions on high-level Kremlin officials suspected of human rights abuses and corruption.
Yuri Chaika, who served as Russia’s justice minister during Putin’s first term and was appointed prosecutor general in 2006, is far from a household name in the United States.
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As Business Insider has previously reported, Veselnitskaya brought a memo to her meeting with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort last June at Trump Tower that contained many of the same talking points as one written by Chaika's office two months earlier. The document is marked “confidential” but made the rounds on Capitol Hill upon the lawmaker's return [congressman Dana Rohrabacher return from Moscow] to the US and was obtained by Business Insider.
Browder was targeted by Chaika's office because of his role in spearheading the Magnitsky Act
• Dot 7
from the vanityfair.com — 10-25-2017
When Trump adviser Jared Kushner bragged to Forbes about his role in steering the Trump campaign to victory, he emphasized the merits of its unique data operation. “We brought in Cambridge Analytica,” he said, referring to the Robert Mercer-backed analytics company. “We basically had to build a $400 million operation with 1,500 people operating in 50 states, in five months.” The relationship was lucrative for the firm, too: Between July 29 and December 12 of last year, the Trump campaign reportedly paid Cambridge Analytica $5.9 million, according to Federal Election Commission data. But on Wednesday, after the Daily Beast reported that its C.E.O., Alexander Nix, had reached out to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with an offer to help release Hillary Clinton’s missing e-mails, Team Trump moved to distance itself from the company.
Dot 1, Cambridge Analytica chief executive Alexander Nix made contact with Assange, presumably as the behest of Dot 2, Rebekah Mercer, a billionaire supporter of Trump, who want to see that “Dirt on Hillary” spread far and wide.
Since Dot 2 is the wife daughter of Dot 3, to Robert Mercer, the American billionaire who bankrolled Donald Trump, and in a “licensed agreement” sort of way — is Dot 1’s Boss. So, CEO Nix obliged the request of Dot 2, and approach to WikiLeaks for more “Dirt on Hillary”.
The “promised Dirt” was presumably handed over to Wikileaks (Dots 2 & 3), AFTER the “meeting of the minds” of the Trump Team “brain trust” (in Dot 4) and the Russian lawyers to get the Magnitsky Act watered down and repealed.
Russian Lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya Dot 5, lied when claim she was acting independent of the Kremlin when she had a third party reach out to the Trump family, proffering “disparaging info” on Hillary Clinton.
Because, as we learned this week (Dot 6) Veselnitskaya, was circulating Kremlin-vetted “talking points” when she met with Trump Team. Those “talking points” were written by Russia's top prosecutor Yuri Chaika and "master of kompromat" who has been working since at least last year to overturn Magnitsky Act legislation — using a variety of routes including congressman Dana Rohrabacher (Dot 6b).
Even as the Trump Team tries to disavow, back-pedal, accuse and distract, from the rapid-closing dragnet (Dot 7), that is honing-in on their “working with Russians” data operations — they CANNOT disavow the $5.9 million they paid Cambridge Analytica (Dot 1) — to carry out their instructions ‘to use the Russian-provided Dirt’ in their “$400 million operation”.
And the Trump Team cannot back-pedal away from their previous bragging claims, about the effectiveness of Cambridge Analytica …
• Dot 8
Exclusive Interview: How Jared Kushner Won Trump The White House
by Steven Bertoni, Forbes — Dec 20, 2016
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This wasn't a completely raw startup. Kushner's crew was able to tap into the Republican National Committee's data machine, and it hired targeting partners like Cambridge Analytica to map voter universes and identify which parts of the Trump platform mattered most: trade, immigration or change. Tools like Deep Root drove the scaled-back TV ad spending by identifying shows popular with specific voter blocks in specific regions--say, NCIS for anti-ObamaCare voters or The Walking Dead for people worried about immigration. Kushner built a custom geo-location tool that plotted the location density of about 20 voter types over a live Google Maps interface.
Soon the data operation dictated every campaign decision: travel, fundraising, advertising, rally locations — even the topics of the speeches. "He put all the different pieces together," Parscale says. "And what's funny is the outside world was so obsessed about this little piece or that, they didn't pick up that it was all being orchestrated so well."
The Trump Team can’t back-away from their previous micro-management boasts:
The data operation (Cambridge Analytica) dictated every campaign decision: travel, fundraising, advertising, rally locations--even the topics of the speeches.
It’s all one big Use the Russian Dirt to the greatest effect “operation” — when you take the time to connect the ever-tightening circle-of-Investigative-Dots.