Mueller examining Cambridge Analytica, Trump campaign ties
Source: Associated Press
By JONATHAN LEMIRE
37 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Robert Mueller is scrutinizing the connections between President Donald Trump’s campaign and the data mining firm Cambridge Analytica, which has come under fierce criticism over reports that it swiped the data of more than 50 million Facebook users to sway elections.
Mueller’s investigators have asked former campaign officials about the Trump campaign’s data operations, particularly about how it collected and utilized voter data in battleground states, according to a person with direct knowledge of the line of inquiry but not authorized to discuss it publicly.
The investigators have also asked some of Trump’s data team, which included analysts at the Republican National Committee, about its relationship with Cambridge Analytica, according to two former campaign officials. The campaign paid the firm just under $6 million for its work in 2016, according to federal records.
Authorities in Britain and the United States are investigating whether Cambridge Analytica may have used data improperly obtained from Facebook to try to influence elections, including the 2016 White House race.
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Mueller’s investigators have asked former campaign officials about the Trump campaign’s data operations, particularly about how it collected and utilized voter data in battleground states, according to a person with direct knowledge of the line of inquiry but not authorized to discuss it publicly.
I'm sure he's already gone over a lot of it with Bannon, but now he needs to corroborate it.
It's interesting that Cambridge Analytica was told by Rudy Giuliani - during the 2016 campaign - that they were not allowed to interfere with a US election. They knew what they were doing was illegal, but they did it anyway. We'll need 2 more jail cells for the Mercers now.
