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There's a new revelation in the ever-unraveling saga of twists and turns behind the scenes of the 2016 Trump campaign today.
The Wall Street Journal (a conservative newspaper I'll point out) is reporting that the Trump campaign paid a small IT company to rig online polling on websites like Drudge and CNBC in Trump's favor.
And the company was paid by none other than Trump's former 'fixer,' Michael Cohen.
The tech guy was, apparently, John Gauger, chief information officer at Liberty University in Virginia, where Trump supporter Jerry Falwell Jr. is president.
The WSJ's story is behind a firewall, but check this from CNN:
According to the paper, Cohen paid John Gauger, the owner of RedFinch Solutions LLC, between $12,000 and $13,000 for activities related to Trump's campaign, including "trying unsuccessfully to manipulate two online polls in Mr. Trump's favor" and creating a Twitter account called "@WomenForCohen" that "praised (Cohen's) looks and character, and promoted his appearances and statements boosting" Trump's candidacy.
In making the claim, Gauger told the paper he wasn't fully paid for the work, though the Journal said Cohen was reimbursed $50,000 -- the amount the two originally agreed on for Gauger's services -- by the Trump Organization. Gauger, according to the paper, also received a boxing glove "worn by a Brazilian mixed-martial arts fighter" along with the cash payment.
The payment to Gauger was mentioned by prosecutors in Cohen's charging documents.
When Michael Cohen wanted to illegally rig an online poll on Trump’s behalf with Trump’s cash, he secured the help of evangelical @LibertyU’s chief information officer. Layers of rot upon layers of rot. https://t.co/TyQ19ITdsh— Evan McMullin (@Evan_McMullin) January 17, 2019
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