“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.” We know this now! Trump thread cont.

[TheClaws]

This is a quote of Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon has a number of quotes when Read through the lens of Trump are eerily prescient. Napoleon wasn’t of the same political bent as Trump necessarily, and he was certainly more cerebral, but the lust for power is the same.

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3191613-Even-if-you-subpoena-us-we-wont-turn-up-on-the-Trump-threads

Joy Reid
@JoyAnnReid
Sarah Huckabee Sanders cannot answer the question "does the president believe the Russian election was free and fair?" She really just can't answer it.

Seth Abramson has just posted a long thread on Twitter about Joe DeGenova (latest addition to Trump's legal team, I think and described as a "deep-state conspiracist" by the WP) and FBI leaks about Clinton in 2016. I think, I don't understand it, but thought someone here might know what it is supposed to mean?
twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/976146018180976641

•conspiracy theorist, sorry, not that word I made up.

And another!

Trump Can’t Dodge Lawsuit Saying He Lied About Groping, Judge Says

www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-03-20/trump-can-t-duck-apprentice-suit-saying-he-lied-about-groping

www.lawfareblog.com/can-presidents-absolute-immunity-be-trumped

Comey helped trump win the election by publishing the letter stating that hrc was under investigation. THat is because trump’s new addition to his team had already leaked information he was getting illegally from FBI agents about other cases and Comey was afraid he would leak this if it wasn’t publicised, leading people to believe the fbi were partisan and there was a deep state, so comey felt he had no other option. This helped trump win.

we collectively curate the chaos

This is genius. It should definitely feature as a strapline in our next threadheader.

Haha sorry, it’s a bit ladybird book “see peter run” but I’m multitasking!

This thread, which I can’t copy in full, is a warning to those of us who might be swiping left

J0nathan A1bright
@d1gi
Getting lots of questions, so I'm posting a thread with an outline of key points to focus on in stories re: privacy implications and questions of Facebook's Graph API. The Graph API is the underlying issue in Cambridge Analytica & FB data-sharing & voter micro-targeting debacle.

mobile.twitter.com/blurky/status/976157032523976705

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
NBC News confirms: Stormy Daniels underwent a polygraph exam about her relationship with Trump; the examiner found there was a more than 99% probability she told the truth when she said they had unprotected sex in 2006, according to a copy of the report.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/amp/lie-detector-test-shows-stormy-daniels-truthful-about-trump-affair-n858281

Yeah, that's a "We're disturbed we got caught."

Meanwhile Nix seems to applying the Shaggy Defense: “I am aware how this looks, but it is simply not the case”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/uk-investigating-cambridge-analytica-facebook/2018/03/20/58d69c7a-2c2b-11e8-8dc9-3b51e028b845_story.html?utm_term=.145656499c6a

I feel a song coming on...

Thank you, Pain. I shall go and think about it till I understand it. I may be some time.

Sorry ouais, that wasn't particularly clear! Which bit is opaque?

Mike Dorning
@MikeDorning
BREAKING: *CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA SUSPENDS CEO ALEXANDER NIX

Channel 4 News
@Channel4News
EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s election consultants secretly filmed boasting that they helped create the “Defeat Crooked Hilary” brand of attack ads. www.channel4.com/news/exposed-undercover-secrets-of-donald-trump-data-firm-cambridge-analytica … #CambridgeAnalyticaUSA

I am watching ch4. I need to get my head round this stuff.

Breaking political news
@breakpolnews
BREAKING: Board of Cambridge Analytica have announced suspension of chief exec Alexander Nix, who is shown on secret camera tonight (C4 News) saying that for his propaganda machine "the candidate is a puppet".
Trump is not pleased and has just said he won't use them again.

Pleeeeeeeeze let that be true!

So, they didn't suspend him for last night's programme, where he was caught on camera offering to import Ukrainian sex workers to entrap political opponents or propagate completely fake news in order to turn an election.

But they've suspended him for (indirectly?) calling Trump a puppet?

Jolly good.

Tom Berners Lee is very cool.

Tim not Tom.

And still no mention of brexit

So they did all of this out of the 'goodness of their heart'?

Who paid them?

Wendy Siegelman
@WendySiegelman
UPDATE: Emerdata Ltd created by SCL/Cambridge Analytica's Julian Wheatland, with Erik Prince's business partner Chun Shun Ko appointed director Jan '17 - just added Rebekah Mercer & Jennifer Mercer as directors, along w/Alexander Nix HT @SoftWarmKitties beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10911848/officers

CA folks - something going on with Wheatland's Emerdata, Mercers just became directors, along with Erik Prince's business partner 👆🏼
@carolecadwalla @annmarlowe @profcarroll @Jamesp @peterjukes @brexitsham

Typo in tweet - should say Chun Shun Ko appointed January 2018 (sigh)

Carole Cadwalladr
@carolecadwalla
More Carole Cadwalladr Retweeted Wendy Siegelman
Journalists! There's a whole new rat's nest right here...
New Mercer-backed venture with Cambridge Analytica's newly-defenestrated Alexander Nix

(& kudos as ever to super-sleuth @WendySiegelman)

And

Carole Cadwalladr
@carolecadwalla
UPDATE: An ex-employee source points out "Cambridge Analytica is a legal fiction. Alexander Nix has been suspended from NOTHING."
This is a very good point. More to follow...

Carole Cadwalladr
@carolecadwalla
Look. This is in Cambridge Analytica's own words (from when it was trying to sue us). It's a shell company with no employees. What exactly has Alexander Nix been suspended from???

Follow the money.