The Trump campaign recruited a former Bernie surrogate to tell POC voters to vote Trump or stay home

[Tavarious Jackson]

Breitbart News landed an election scoop that went viral in August 2016: “Exclusive: ‘Black Men for Bernie’ Founder to End Democrat ‘Political Slavery’ of Minority Voters… by Campaigning for Trump.”

If the splashy, counterintuitive story, which circulated on such conservative websites as Truthfeed and Infowars, wasn't exactly fake news, it was carefully orchestrated.

The story’s writer—an employee of the conservative website run by Steve Bannon before he took over Donald Trump’s campaign—spent weeks courting activist Bruce Carter to join Trump’s cause. He approached Carter under the guise of interviewing him. The writer eventually dropped the pretense altogether, signing Carter up for a 10-week blitz aimed at convincing black voters in key states to support the Republican real estate mogul, or simply sit out the election. Trump’s narrow path to victory tightened further if Hillary Clinton could attract a Barack Obama-level turnout


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-29/inside-the-pro-trump-effort-to-keep-black-voters-from-the-polls?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=business&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business

[shanny]

1. Breitbart? puhleeeese

[mcar]

3. Yeah, how could a Sanders supporter fall for a Breitbart pitch

to support Dotard and work to suppress AA turnout? And yet it happened.

Puhleeese is right.

[OnDoutside]

15. The ole "But Hillary" trail of tears.

[Cha]

2. That's right.. Bruce Carter.. it ended badly

for him teaming up with trump shite. This is a horrible story.

[lostnfound]

4. Isn't that normal and legal?

Not exactly the high ground but not newsworthy.

[ehrnst]

8. There are FEC issues

The work Carter says he did, and the funds he was given to do it, also raise questions as to whether campaign finance laws were broken.

The group Carter founded, Trump for Urban Communities, never disclosed its spending to the Federal Election Commission—a possible violation of election law. In hindsight, Carter says, he believed he was working for the campaign so he wouldn’t have been responsible for reporting the spending.

His descriptions of the operation suggest possible coordination between Trump’s campaign and his nominally independent efforts. If there was coordination, election law dictates that any contributions to groups such as his must fall within individual limits: no more than $2,700 for a candidate. One supporter far exceeded that cap, giving about $100,000 to Carter’s efforts.

Another potential issue is whether the unusual role played by the Breitbart reporter amounted to an in-kind contribution.

“There are some real problems here,” says Lawrence Noble, who served as general counsel at the FEC during Republican and Democratic administrations and is now senior director and general counsel at the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan advocacy organization. “I would think this is more than enough evidence for the FEC to open an investigation.”

[Wwcd]

5. There's a reason Mueller named Sanders along with Trump in his

findings as to who benefitted from election meddling.

Oddly, they were also the only 2 candidates that claimed their campaign was rigged.

Clinton's campaign is the only one now known to have proof of actually being rigged on a massive & intentional purpose, by foreign adversaries, Money & Media.

From the early days of RT to to our own MSM, social media to the Kremlin bot centers & the millions of fake 'likes' on FB & online polls, all there with one end goal.
To create a false impression & fake candidates like Trump, & to see that the Democratic leader they considered their only threat to the road to fascism, Hillary Clinton, was silenced & who's stellar image around the globe, was recreated into the opposite of who she actually was.

It was a massive Media smear campaign, purchased & promoted by the Kremlin.

There's a reason why Mueller named only those two.
Sanders & Trump.

We all witnessed the game being played on America.
Thankfully, Mueller does also.

[tonyt53]

6. I'd say you'll get bashed over your opinion, but it won't be coming from me. I'm with ya!

[Wwcd]

9. There's nothing to bash. There is proof of the massive media smear campaign against Clinton.

There is proof of the meddling from Bannon to all media forms. From the Kremlin via RT & MSM to social media swarmed with false 'likes' to purchased players who grabbed the mic & drove the message hard enough to seat a US govt that was more aligned with dictators of the world.

Congress & Senate was purchased & bribed, and candidates were presented as valid who in reality came with scant to none of the policy nor experience to govern our nation in this globally unsettling environment.

As for Sanders, Mueller has his reasons for specifically naming him aling with Trump in his formal findings.

We'll wait to find out the reasons he did so.
Mueller makes no formal findings for political reasons & certainly names no one without reason.

Mueller will tell us the reality of how the Kremlin came to dominate our 2016 election.

Thanks tonyt53

[Cha]

10. Thank you, Wwcd!

[Wwcd]

11. 💖 Cha

[Cha]

12. This needs kicking

💖

[OnDoutside]

16. I'm not disputing what you say Wwcd (on the contrary) but where did Mueller name

both Sanders & Trump ? I definitely missed that.

[NCTraveler]

7. The definition of a Bro starts...

Any easy mark........

[Blue_Tires]

13. Now you know why I use the term "useful idiots"...

[Jamaal510]

14. K&R

[JI7]

17. mostly white people would push this guy onto minorities telling them

that is what black people should follow.