Thread by @MsMariaT

"Tony Fabrizio, Trump’s campaign pollster, dismissed the data as “incomplete and misleading,” representing a “worst-case scenario in the most unfavorable turnout model possible.”

Trump campaign cutting ties w/pollsters after internal numbers leaked

nbcnews.com/politics/meet-…

"A separate person close to the Trump re-election team told NBC News Saturday that the campaign will be cutting ties with some of its pollsters in response to the information leaks, although the person did not elaborate as to WHICH pollsters would be let go."

"In WI, PA, FL and MI — three states where Trump edged Democratic nominee HRC by narrow margins that proved decisive in his victory — Trump trails Biden by double-digits. In three of those states — WI, PA and FL— Biden’s leads sit outside the poll’s margin of error."

Recall:

"Politico reported on 11/9/16 that in final wks of campaign Manafort wrote Trump a memo telling him to change schedule & go stump in MI/WI. It sounded crazy, but Trump did it. Fabrizio agreed.

Manafort and Fabrizio worked together *for yrs.*"

https://twitter.com/MsEnergyHealer/status/1083101964643123200

"Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio had found Trump lagging Joe Biden in most of the states he needed to win — even in Texas. The Times reported that Trump had instructed his staff to LIE about this polling."
nymag.com/intelligencer/…

And remember:

"Mueller's team met with pollster Tony Fabrizio in 2/18...Mueller's team is still interested in how Manafort shared polling data with his Russian intelligence-linked colleague."

cnn.com/2019/01/10/pol…

"Fabrizio's involvement with Mueller is intriguing because he's one of the few people in Manafort's orbit with knowledge of the inner-workings of the Trump campaign as well as Manafort's Eastern European connections."

"A veteran pollster and political strategist, [Tony] Fabrizio worked on Ukrainian elections with Manafort and went on to serve as the Trump campaign's chief pollster beginning in the spring of 2016."

Tony Fabrizio's firm (Mercury) helping out Russia/Deripaska w/UK lobby effort:

5/18, Lord Gregory Barker...chairman of En+ Group...formerly Deripaska’s...inked a...contract w/Mercury Public Affairs to lobby for...removal of...sanctions for Deripaska..."

https://twitter.com/LuluLemew/status/1086016165518950400

Back to CNN article:

"A source familiar with the special counsel's interest said Fabrizio's interview included questions about his polling work for Manafort in Ukraine rather than his internal Trump campaign polling."

"But when Manafort was hired, the newly minted campaign chairman aimed to professionalize the political apparatus. As part of that effort, he recruited Fabrizio, who already had close ties to Manafort and other Trump allies, including...Roger Stone."

"His relationship w/Trump soured late in the election as the Trump campaign disputed a bill of roughly $767K to Fabrizio's polling firm.

Fabrizio's firm was eventually compensated."

Trump paid THAT bill, lol.

"Fabrizio had long been among Manafort's circle of political operatives and became part of the cast of characters mentioned during his criminal trial...

At trial, Mueller's team painted a picture of a well-oiled Ukrainian lobbying operation...[for] pro-Russia oligarchs..."

And some of that money came here, in 2013, to Rohrbacher, Royce and Jim Risch, for example:

https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/967097002071941120

"Fabrizio's firm earned more than a quarter million dollars from Manafort for polling and surveys in Manafort's Ukraine operation in 2012 and 2013, according to foreign lobbying disclosures."

"Fabrizio's Ukrainian work w/Manafort in 2013 overlapped w/Kilimnik...At the time, Kilimnik was setting up Manafort's Kiev op.

Prosecutors have said Kilimnik has ties to the Russian military intelligence agency that hacked the Democrats during the election,"

"Soon after [Tony] Fabrizio spoke to Mueller's team last year, Gates began cooperating."

linking back to CNN article.

cnn.com/2019/01/10/pol…

Pulling out some details from this Daily Mail UK article. I know they're pretty much cagada, but Ivanka's PR team leaks to them, so they sometimes let details slip that others don't:

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6…

"A source familiar with the line of questioning told the network the inquiries were about [Tony] Fabrizio's Ukraine work, rather than his polling for Trump....

...Fabrizio's firm touts its work for Trump, Senate Majority Leader MITCH MCCONNELL, and others..."

Muy interesante, that. Tony Fabrizio did polling for #CocaineMitch, too.

Muy, muy, interesante:

"Fabrizio is a longtime pollster w/a FL office....The firm's website..features pics of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, FL Sen. and former Gov Rick Scott, KY Sen. Rand Paul, IA Sen. Joni Ernst, as well as a large picture of Trump."

☑️Deripaska's opening a plant in KY

☑️Rand Paul hand-delivered a letter to Putin

(☑️Also, Rep Thomas Massie, KY, dined w/Butina)

💥Manafort's pollster, Fabrizio - who helped on behalf of pro-RU oligarchs in Ukraine & UK - did polling for Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul 💥 👀

@Klickedy - did you know Tony Fabrizio did polling for Mitch and RAND? 😁

@Klickedy Before I get ahead of myself, also note that Fabrizio site indicates he did polling for Rick Scott and Joni Ernst, in addition Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul.

I never bought that story re the "shy Trump voter" that explained away the exit polling mismatches.

https://twitter.com/MsMariaT/status/1001294165345419264