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‘Inside John Bolton Super PAC’s deal with Cambridge Analytica’

‘Former aide says Bolton had ‘$5 million reasons’ to work with disgraced firm’

Bolton wanted Mercer’s money.

publicintegrity.org/2018/07/16/219…

And Cambridge Analytica’s pitch to Bolton included what sort of ads to use to target Iowa, Nevada and New Hampshire.

documentcloud.org/documents/4568…

‘(Bolton) made a grave and egregious error, and I think he should have to answer for that,” Groombridge said. “He sort of willy-nilly gave all this money to an organization that ended up potentially doing great harm.”

Added Groombridge: “Bolton got played.”