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Foreign election interference, anyone? Anyone? Good lord! Wake up! PROOF: read.macmillan.com/lp/proof-of-co…

Snips:As for whether interference by Zamel and Psy-Group in the 2016 election offers some additional evidence of involvement by the Israeli government, worth noting is a New York Times report confirming that Psy-Group is indeed “staffed by former Israeli intelligence operatives.”

The Daily Beast and the Times of Israel have both reported that not just Gates but two members of “Trump’s inner circle” reached out to Psy-Group looking for election assistance; the names of these top-level Trump aides are at present unknown.

What is known is that Zamel was so determined to get to Trump he “even asked Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker, to offer Zamel’s services to Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law.”

Gingrich forwarded Zamel’s May 2016 email to Jared Kushner; as already noted, Kushner’s family is close to Netanyahu, and it is Kushner who ultimately decides, over objections from both Corey Lewandowski and

Paul Manafort, to hire Cambridge Analytica—a decision that may well have meant, too, hiring an Israeli business intelligence firm run by Zamel. Zamel ....saying in his email to Gingrich that ended up in Kushner’s in-box that Psy-Group could

“provide the Trump campaign with powerful tools that would use social media to advance Trump’s chances. Zamel suggested a meeting in Washington to discuss the matter further.”

Kushner thereafter discussed the idea with Brad Parscale, then Trump’s digital campaign director; subsequently, Rick Gates requested that Zamel send additional proposals to the campaign, which the Israeli business intelligence expert did in June.1

In St. Petersburg, Zamel tells Nader that he is “trying to raise money for a social-media campaign in support of Trump”—an entreaty strongly suggesting that the Trump campaign was willing to use Zamel’s work, but not to pay for it directly, and that Zamel had reason to

believe Nader’s patron MBZ, for whom Zamel was already a consultant, would be willing to secretly do so. And indeed, according to the New Yorker, Zamel ultimately does ask Nader for “Nader’s Gulf contacts . . . [to] contribut[e] financially.”

According to the Times of Israel, one of the three campaigns Psy-Group proposes to the Trump team in June 2016 in response to contact with multiple top campaign advisers suggests “us[ing] fake online profiles to bombard [targets] with messages”

that appear to come from American voters and decry Trump opponents’ “ulterior motives or hidden plans.”
...Meanwhile, a second proposal solicited by the Trump campaign would use an identical strategy to “target female minorities . . . in swing states to push them

toward Trump and away from Clinton.” A third proposal “... using social media to help expose or amplify division among rival campaigns and factions”—an idea that dovetails with the Kremlin’s effort to suppress Democratic turnout in November 2016 by exacerbating divisions between

supporters of Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Jill Stein. These proposals, submitted formally to the Trump campaign in the spring and summer of 2016 under the code name Project Rome, are thus substantively indistinguishable from the interference

the Kremlin was orchestrating during the general election.
That Psy-Group knows the activities it proposes to Gates and two other top Trump aides will have to be covert is confirmed by its proposals using code words for Trump and Clinton and discussing the need for

“intelligence activities”—which the proposals explicitly contrast with “open source methods”—for the plans to come off properly.
That Psy-Group knows its proposals are illegal appears to be confirmed by a subsequent Times of Israel investigation, which finds that Psy-Group “was

reportedly told by an American law firm that its activities would be illegal if non-Americans were involved.”
According to an investigative report by the Daily Beast, Rick Gates and the two unnamed aides in Trump’s “inner circle” who solicit digital campaign ideas from Psy-Group

are “very, very interested” in Zamel’s proposals, despite the campaign’s future protestations to the contrary. These protestations, which also insist that the campaign never used Psy-Group’s services, will be challenged by several “former employees” of Psy-Group who “dispute[ ]

[the] claim” that “the firm never went forward with its plan to help the [Trump] campaign.” [end] @SethAbramson
Don't you think this warrants hearings in the House?
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