rnc s voter data saying, quote, we kept both data operations going simultaneously and a lot shared between them. and bay that we could scale to a pretty good operation. they had a team of cambridge data scientists embedded in the trump headquarters who were doing very sophisticated models wok that helped to in which where the campaign was going to send donald trump. in august 2016 steve bannon became ceo of the trump campaign. before that he feels the vice president of cambridge analytica. while working for the firm, bannon had urged the trump campaign to fire them as far back as april, according to the new yorker. in september 2016 the trump campaign made its biggest payment to cambridge analytica, $5 million. that s according to fec filings. those payments eventually totaled nearly $6 million. the the payments listed by the fec as being for data management services. the firm has offices in london, new york and right here in washington, d.c. just three
revelation that trump linked data firm reached out to wikileaks with its ceo contacting julian assange to offer help organizing the clinton related e-mails the website was releasing. these are the e-mails that our government says were stolen by russian aligned hackers during the campaign. if this is true, it means that the trump campaign s data firm was trying to help the russians disseminate anti-clinton documents stolen by agents of a foreign government. the trump campaign is trying to play down its connection to cambridge, claiming in a statement that it relied only on data from the rnc. quote, any claims that voter data from any other source played a key role in the victory are false. according to the campaign s own fec filings, the trump campaign paid cambridge an lit ka $5.9 million. and there were dozens of profiles of the mercer-funded cambridge an lit ka as the
if this is true, it means that the trump campaign s data firm was trying to help the russians disseminate anti-clinton documents stolen by agents of a foreign government. the trump campaign is trying to play down its connection to cambridge, claiming in a statement that it relied only on data from the rnc. quote, any claims that voter data from any other source played a key role in the victory are false. according to the campaign s own fec filings, the trump campaign paid cambridge an lit ka $5.9 million. and there were dozens of profiles of the mercer-funded cambridge an lit ka as the beating heart of the trump campaign s data operation, including this bbc tour of where the operation had been housed. cambridge an lit ka was here. so it was just a line of computers. this is where their operation was and this is kind of the brain of the data. this was the data center.
i understand cnn has uncovered a couple things that don t square with that contention by the trump campaign. that s right. after trump won the nomination his campaign started series of payments to cambridge in july all the way through mid december, totalling just about $6 million. this is according to f.e.c. filings. in addition to that, jared kushner, the president s son-in-law who headed up one of his data operations and is now senior adviser said to forbes back in november that just after the president won the election, he said we kept both data operations going simultaneously and a lot shared between them. by doing that we could scale to a pretty good operation, so he appears to be giving credit to kra with the cambridge
supporting the futility of the rand paul presidential effort it ups the pressure on him at home that he should drop that apparently futile effort and instead focus on trying to keep hold of his senate seat. maybe that s doable. and rand paul keeps insisting that, you know, he can do both. nothing about him running for president is hurting his senate re-election chances. there s no reason he should stop running for president. there s nothing about his presidential run that puts his senate seat at risk. but then came news today about his f.e.c. filings. he had to turn in his f.e.c. numbers just like all the other candidates did this week. and in rand paul s f.e.c. filings, his news, that rand paul literally has transferred money, has transferred tens of thousands of dollars from his senate re-election campaign to his presidential election campaign. quoting from the washington post today, the f.e.c. filing shows rand paul moved another