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Showing Original Post only (View all)Palmer Report: Mueller report confirms something wasn't right in Michigan, Wisconsin, & Pennsylvania [View all]
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/michigan-wisconsin-pennsylvania-mueller-report-confirms/17438/Just days after the 2016 presidential election, Palmer Report began documenting that the voting results in key swing states like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania were suspicious to the point of being nearly mathematically impossible. The odds were infinitesimal that Trump would have won precisely the states he needed in order to pull off a deeply upside-down Electoral College victory, and that Trump would have won them all by just above the margin required to avoid automatic recounts.
At the time, we didnt know why these results were so off the mark; we only knew that something was very wrong. Then came one media report after another in 2017 about the role that Russian government hackers tried to play in the 2016 election. Then came the 2018 report from the Senate Intelligence Committee which revealed that Russian hackers managed to breach voter registration databases in key swing states ahead of the 2016 election, and gained the ability to delete voter registration data.
Then came Robert Muellers court filings asserting Paul Manafort gave Trump campaign internal polling data to confirmed former Russian spy and alleged current Russian spy Konstantin Kilimnik. Now today we have this stunning passage from the Mueller report, which sheds more light on the matter: Manafort briefed Kilimnik on the state of the Trump Campaign and Manaforts plan to win the election. That briefing encompassed the Campaigns messaging and its internal polling data. According to [Trump campaign vice chair Rick] Gates, it also included discussion of battleground states, which Manafort identified as Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota.
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Robert Muellers report says that he didnt pursue what happened with that internal Trump campaign data after the campaign gave it to the Russian government, because other entities like the FBI are investigating the matter. We doubt the Russians sought out this oddly specific internal information from the Trump campaign out of mere curiosity. Something wasnt right in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania and the Mueller report just confirmed as much.
At the time, we didnt know why these results were so off the mark; we only knew that something was very wrong. Then came one media report after another in 2017 about the role that Russian government hackers tried to play in the 2016 election. Then came the 2018 report from the Senate Intelligence Committee which revealed that Russian hackers managed to breach voter registration databases in key swing states ahead of the 2016 election, and gained the ability to delete voter registration data.
Then came Robert Muellers court filings asserting Paul Manafort gave Trump campaign internal polling data to confirmed former Russian spy and alleged current Russian spy Konstantin Kilimnik. Now today we have this stunning passage from the Mueller report, which sheds more light on the matter: Manafort briefed Kilimnik on the state of the Trump Campaign and Manaforts plan to win the election. That briefing encompassed the Campaigns messaging and its internal polling data. According to [Trump campaign vice chair Rick] Gates, it also included discussion of battleground states, which Manafort identified as Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota.
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Robert Muellers report says that he didnt pursue what happened with that internal Trump campaign data after the campaign gave it to the Russian government, because other entities like the FBI are investigating the matter. We doubt the Russians sought out this oddly specific internal information from the Trump campaign out of mere curiosity. Something wasnt right in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania and the Mueller report just confirmed as much.
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Palmer Report: Mueller report confirms something wasn't right in Michigan, Wisconsin, & Pennsylvania [View all]
highplainsdem
Apr 2019
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The Mueller report does confirm that Manafort was giving Dem polling info and data to the...
brush
Apr 2019
#6
The State of Illinois found proof that the Russians had broken into their registration system.
pnwmom
Apr 2019
#9
So data bases were hacked in these states: wouldn't voters complain if they were deleted?
YOHABLO
Apr 2019
#3
There were many voters, in different states, who arrived at their voting places to find out
pnwmom
Apr 2019
#10
They just hacked into databases for fun, to prove they could. Nothing to see here.
Amaryllis
Apr 2019
#12