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SCOOP: In 2015, Wikistrat [owned by Psy Group's Joel Zamel who in 2016 pitched Don Jr a cyber plan to get Trump elected] gamed out a Russian meddling scenario eerily similar to exactly what happened in the 2016 campaign.
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In Aug 2016, after Trump became the GOP nominee, Psy Group's Joel Zamel met with Don Jr and pitched a "plan," which echoed real election interference already underway by the Kremlin and the scenario which Zamel's Wikistrat had gamed out in 2015.
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Wikistrat's 2015 Cyber Mercenaries scenario [which touched on Russia’s ‘Internet Research Group’ weaponizing social media to shape politics & hacking groups targeting US polling stations] mirrors material that Trump campaign's Rick Gates sought from Psy Group in Apr 2016.
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Aug 2016: In a meeting set up by Erik Prince, George Nader & Psy Group's Joel Zamel pitched Don Jr & other Trump campaign officials a cyber manipulation plan to get Trump elected, offering services similar to Mercer & Bannon's Cambridge Analytica.
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Dec 2016: Joel Zamel's Psy Group formed a strategic partnership with the Trump campaign's data firm, Mercer & Bannon-owned Cambridge Analytica –– suggesting the two companies had established a line of communication before the election.
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Wikistrat's 2015 Cyber Mercenaries scenario – which noted Russia’s ‘Internet Research Group’ [Internet Research Agency] – was written after the Kremlin-backed IRA had begun its US election interference, but before the American public knew about it.
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Jun 2014: Kremlin's Internet Research Agency begins its 2016 US election interference campaign in their new St Petersburg office – just 15 minutes from where Bannon's newly formed Cambridge Analytica launches a ‘Russian research project' on trolls.
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Zamel's [Wikistrat] 2015 analysis: “These [Russian] ‘cyber-trolls’ are trained* controversialists: they openly engage in public controversy.”
Who trained the Russian trolls on how to engage Americans about US politics? Likely Dr. Kogan of Bannon's Cambridge Analytica.
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Who trained the Russian trolls on how to engage Americans about US politics? Likely Dr. Kogan of Bannon's Cambridge Analytica.
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ICYMI: Cambridge Analytica co-owner & Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon was involved with the Jan 2017 meeting between Psy Group's Joel Zamel, Mike Flynn, other Trump transition officials, and Saudi Crown Prince MBS' spy chief, General Al-Assiri.
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👆TLDR: Zamel's Wikistrat gamed out Russia's "meddling" in 2015 [noting Russia's Internet Research "Group"], info that Zamel gave to Trump's campaign in 2016 before inking a partnership deal with Bannon's Cambridge Analytica, a likely collaborator of the Internet Research Agency.
