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Trump's deputy campaign chair Rick Gates solicited proposals from Israeli company Psy-Group to create fake online identities and use social media manipulation to help Trump defeat Republican primary opponents & Hillary Clinton.
by @MarkMazzettiNYT #Maddow nyti.ms/2E6xgmD
Psy-Group, which is owned by Joel Zamel [who met with Don Jr in AUG 2016] and staffed by former Israeli intelligence operatives, proposed using social media to amplify division among rival campaigns and factions to help Trump defeat Cruz & Clinton.
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Aug 3, 2016: Joel Zamel pitched Don Jr a plan to get Trump elected in a meeting arranged by Erik Prince. Zamel's firm, Psy-Group, offers services like "honey traps" & social media manipulation to influence campaigns [just like Cambridge Analytica].
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Psy-Group owner Joel Zamal [who did work for Russian oligarchs Deripaska & Rybolovlev, creating online campaigns against their business rivals], pitched a plan to Don Jr which involved thousands of fake social media accounts used to promote Trump.
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Israeli intelligence firm Psy Group [whose owner Joel Zamel had a secret meeting in Trump Tower with Don Jr in AUG 2016 and pitched a plan to elect Trump involving honey traps & fake social media accounts] has links to Cambridge Analytica.
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ICYMI: In @Channel4News's hidden camera video, Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix offered to use bribes, ex-spies [ex-Israeli intel –> Zamel's Psy Group], fake social media accounts, & honey traps to influence campaigns.
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Now this bit with Gates and PsyGroup is really interesting nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/…
RFP ➡️ create fake online identities ➡️ to use social media manipulation and gather intel
👆One proposal ➡️ use bogus personas to target delegates to the 2016 Republican National Convention
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Trump's deputy campaign chair Rick Gates solicited proposals (#felony) from Israeli firm Psy Group to create fake online personas, use social media manipulation & gather intel to help defeat @GOP primary opponents (@tedcruz) & @HillaryClinton🤨1/
nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/…
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Nader is COOPERATING.😎 2/

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💥Trump aide Rick Gates requested three proposals from Israeli intelligence firm Psy-Group to create fake online identities, to use social media manipulation & to gather intelligence, "Project Rome" used code names:

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nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/…
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