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Michael Cohen offered Liberty University CIO $50,000 to rig two online polls for Trump

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  1. HumbledPi

    HumbledPi Well-Known Member

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    Not only is it publicly known that Paul Manafort was feeding the Russians confidential polling data, now Michael Cohen has stated that he paid a technology company to manipulate two news sites' polls.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/17/cohen-poll-rigging/2601299002/

    Michael Cohen offered Liberty University CIO $50,000 to rig two online polls for Trump, report says

    WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump's former fixer and personal attorney Michael Cohen paid a technology expert to rig online polls in Trump's favor, according to The Wall Street Journal.

    John Gauger, the owner of Red Finch Solutions and chief information officer at Liberty University, said Cohen offered him $50,000 to manipulate two news sites' polls, the Journal reported Thursday, citing a government document and a person familiar with the matter.
     
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    $50,000 of DIRTY DONALDS money!!!
     
    61falcon, Jan 17, 2019
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    Money well spent.
     
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    Doofenshmirtz Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Thats how all polls start.
     
    Doofenshmirtz, Jan 17, 2019
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    Antiduopolist Well-Known Member

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    Hitlery rigged the entire nomination process.
     
    Antiduopolist, Jan 17, 2019
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    Of course we KNOW that a representative of a CHRISTIAN???UNIVERSITY would never succumb to a bribe????
     
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    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Are Americans really this dumb?

    <looks at current national educational attainment>

    Why yes, yes we are
     
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    Officials Fight Donald Trump’s Claims of a Rigged Vote

    WASHINGTON — Republican leaders and election officials from both parties on Sunday sought to combat claims by Donald J. Trump that the election is rigged against him, amid signs that Mr. Trump’s contention is eroding confidence in the vote and setting off talk of rebellion among his supporters.

    In a vivid illustration of how Mr. Trump is shattering American political norms, the Republican nominee is alleging that a conspiracy is underway between the news media and the Democratic Party to commit vast election fraud. He has offered no evidence to support his claim.

    “The election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary — but also at many polling places — SAD,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter on Sunday.

    ... https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/us/politics/donald-trump-election-rigging.html​

    And then he won. With the help of the Russians and after having his personal fixer try to rig polls. Lol.
     
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    Republican senators and leaders are now in collusion with Trump.
     
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    I just learned today that most states allow students to remain in high school until they turn age 22 and that TEXAS allows them until they turn 26.I can see this for foreign students who come here unable to read or speak English but not for native born Americans.Does anyone know the exact rules on this??In my era I cannot recall anyone in high school beyond 18 years of age.
     
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    He won because Hillary is too detestable to too many voters.
    Sanders would have won!
    If only Hillary had allowed for an honest, unbiased DNC.


    Moi :oldman:







    :flagcanada: FREE Meng Wanzhou!
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    Honestly folks

    Does anyone really believe any major candidate
    or their representative,
    is not involved in poll rigging.
    As in pre-election polls, not real elections.
    For the later, look to "ballot harvesting".
    Orange County, California totally Blue, gimmie a break!
    Ballot Harvesting is legal in California.


    Ballot Harvesting allows a third party to call on voters,
    and collect their ballot for the upcoming vote.


    Moi :oldman:






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    Well when you think about it... the polls were actually incorrect.... he basically offered them 50 grand to print the correct poll :lol:
     
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    Oh oh. We better get a new special counsel.
     
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    'whataboutism' from either left or right is really 'stupidism.'
     
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    Unless of course they believed it went with 'God's' calling.
     
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    God willing.
     
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    All the polls showed Clinton burying Trump. But she got buried. Poll fixing? Between the Trump campaign, the Clinton campaign, the mainstream media, and the DNC....the Trump campaign is probably the least corrupt.
     
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    Polls are supposed to be unbiased, fair and equal. Paying someone to doctor up and falsify polls is illegal.
     
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    You do not understand polling, predictive polls, opinion polls, and protocols.
     
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    He paid John Gauger, the owner of RedFinch Solutions LLC, between $12,000 and $13,000 for activities related to Trump's campaign, including "trying unsuccessfully to manipulate two online polls in Mr. Trump's favor" and creating a Twitter account called "@WomenForCohen" that "praised (Cohen's) looks and character, and promoted his appearances and statements boosting" Trump's candidacy.

    Gauger's efforts for the CNBC poll were unsuccessful, according to the paper, and Trump ranked low in the Drudge Report poll. In other words, he wasted Trump's money.
     
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    Nonetheless, he broke the law.
     
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    3rd world politics, but it has become the norm with this admin.
     
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    Ha! As if the other polls weren't rigged by the Clintons. You forget they were all showing Clinton would win by a large margin. She didn't now did she? Looks very suspicious to me.
     
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    Jeannette, you don't know the difference between opinion and prediction polls. Clinton was predicted to with the PV, which she did very easily, and Trump lost badly. Cohen, at Trump's urging, was trying to fix opinion polls.
     
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