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Following the Money

26 Monday Feb 2018

Posted by crosbysamuel in Articles, Uncategorized

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bank, Collusion, committee, Congress, deutsche, finance, financial, impeach, intelligence, organization, record, russia, trump

“Counterintelligence 101 is following the money, because following money is how you compromise people,” says Sen. Ron Wyden of the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Intelligence Committee. Democrats belonging to congressional committees have grown frustrated with the lack of access to President Trump’s financial records. Though members of the House Intelligence Committee have sought subpoenas for the Deutsche Bank, the major lender to the Trump Organization, they have so far been unsuccessful. The Deutsche bank has declined to give any privileged information without subpoena.

President Trump has drawn a “red line” before his family’s financial records, and many Republican congressmen support him in this decision. However, Democrats believe that said records may contain evidence of Russian collusion. That does seem possible. As Wyden has said: “[follow] the money.”

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Russian Bots Preferred Trump

29 Monday Jan 2018

Posted by crosbysamuel in Articles, Uncategorized

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2016 election, bots, Collusion, committee, impeach, interference, judiciary, russia, Senate, trump, tweeter, tweets

The Senate Judiciary Commitee’s probe of social media platforms uncovered data concerning the number of retweets Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton each received from Russian robots between September 1st and November 15th. While Trump received 470,000 retweets from the Russian bots, Clinton only received 50,000.  C-NET reports that Twitter has around 450,000 suspicious logins (possibly from bots) a day, and as such the number of retweets the candidates received is relatively insignificant. However, it does establish the Russian bots had a preference for retweeting Trump. Additionally, this preference cannot be said to be a mere reflection of the candidate’s rate of tweeting, as their daily average was more or less on par with each other.

This information falls far short of establishing collusion. Even if we could take the data to mean that the Russian government supported Trump, it does not show that Trump solicited said support. However, it does help to further establish Russian interference with the 2016 election. To look at the Committee’s complete report click here.

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