REVEALED: Trump campaign secret data on gunman's family

[suegeo]

Source: Channel 4 News I think out of Great Britain?

The family of Trump's would-be assassin Thomas Crooks was among millions of voters profiled by Trump's 2016 presidential campaign

The owner of the rifle used to shoot at Donald Trump had been identified by the former president's campaign as a strong republican, likely gun owner and "hunter", as revealed today by Channel 4 News.

In 2016 the Trump campaign built a database profiling millions of voters in key battleground states - including the family of Trump's would-be assassin Thomas Crooks.

Read more: https://www.channel4.com/news/revealed-trump-campaign-secret-data-on-gunmans-family

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A troubled loner, 20 years old, brain not fully developed yet. What "friends" took him under their wing, into their group, at the gun club he frequented, or commentors in the YouTube Channel, the one on his t-shirt.

[rubbersole]

1. But, but, but he was groomed by a woke bumper sticker he saw...

[Lulu KC]

2. I question this

Partly because I don't trust Trump OR his data, but his dad's a registered Libertarian, his mom's a registered Democrat. Thomas is the only one in the fam registered as a Republican. I'm wondering if Trump's campaign didn't get something mixed up just because Dad does seem to be into guns. But I know Democrats (well.....one) who is an avid hunter and is into guns. That part of the country is big on hunting.

[MOMFUDSKI]

3. I believe there is more to come out.

We are dealing with a desperate felon who is deathly afraid of prison. Just ask Chris Christie

[suegeo]

6. Channel 4 News has approached the Trump campaign for comment.

But apparently the campaign is in total lockdown. Anybody who talks will be fired.
Why the lockdown?

[LeftInTX]

13. They aren't going to comment on scores or even eight year old surveys

They will base scores on likely gun ownership etc. Hard data would be belonging to a gun club. They may have replied to surveys. They may have attended events etc.

It's like, "likely speaks Spanish". However, that category is based on last name. So you can have someone who speaks Spanish with an Anglo surname and vice versa.

Scores are calculated via proprietary methods. They aren't evidence and are commonly utilized by advertisers. For instance if someone has a score as a gun owner, except to see ads for Academy etc.

[Bev54]

4. Do you honestly think they profiled a 12 year old boy? That would have been his age in 2016

[sybylla]

8. The first line of the article says, "The family of Trump's would-be assassin..."

I don't think anyone read that, or the OP's comments, and thought they were talking about a 12yo child.

The point is in serious rebuttal to the GQP claims that the kid was not a conservative. The evidence is piling up that he grew up in a conservatively-led household and there hasn't been one classmate or neighbor to say he wasn't conservative as an adult.

[suegeo]

20. The 2016 data went somewhere to some other sick group. It didn't disappear.

What happened to the campaign data after 2016?
How was the data used in subsequent years?

Senator Richard Blumenthal wanted to know that too. I wonder why he penned a letter on Sept. 30, 2022 to the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

I have great curiosity what the Shooting Sports response was.


https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/093022nssfcambridgeanalyticaletter.pdf

NSSF is a trade organization made up of all the gun manufacturers selling in
the US. Each year, they run a large campaign aimed at ‘voter education’. They call
it voter education to avoid the corporate proxy tax by directly endorsing any
candidates and focusing on issues. Pat O’Malley, our contact with access to the
money, has been running this campaign for them since 2002 and it has been almost
entirely direct mail. Pat was leveraging a database of fire arms [sic] manufacturing
warranty cards (collected by the fire arms companies) to determine his targeting in
key states (millions of people, if they bought a gun, and what kind of gun they
bought).

Direct mail. No electronic trail.

Please describe what happened to the database of gun owners CA collected after the
election and the steps that were taken to protect this sensitive information from misuse or
unauthorized disclosure.

CA is Cambridge Analytica

Please provide a comprehensive list of all individuals or entities to whom NSSF has
provided information to regarding gunowners’ firearm purchases or warranty
registrations, including any similar engagements to the NSSF-CA engagement, for voter
education, voter registration, or election work after the 2016 election cycle.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Trump's secret data on all likely gun owners.

The magats have their deep state paranoia pointed in the wrong direction. They are the target as well as the harvest.

[suegeo]

7. KICK

[2naSalit]

9. Nobody hunts with an AK47 or whatever assault weapons.

[Lulu KC]

16. I have questioned this, too

About the person I know who hunts and has weird guns. Could they have them to use at target practice or something? (Now I'm thinking that person I knew was really weird and I'm so gun-ignorant I had no idea.)

[2naSalit]

17. That's all they can...

Use them for, legally.

The purpose of that style of gun is to kill people, it was intended to be used as a weapon of war.

Has NO purpose in the general population of a civil society.

[blugbox]

21. It's so you can penetrate the deer's body armor...

[kwolf68]

10. So how do you know if someone is a gun owner

I have guns, have had them my entire life. Have not shot in 30 years, but they were guns my dad and I collected and did target shooting, WW2 guns. How would anyone know I have them?

[FailureToCommunicate]

11. His dad could well have been an NRA member and

certainly that database would have been available to TFGs campaign.

[LeftInTX]

12. I don't think this is breaking news.

Parties and campaigns do modeling and scores. This is nothing new. The data is from 2016. You may want to post in general discussion.

[FakeNoose]

14. In 2016, the kid was only 12! They should be looking at the parents

I'll bet the parents are the source of most of his craziness, unless he ran away from home as a pre-teen.

[SilasSouleII]

15. See reply 8

n/t

[Linda ladeewolf]

18. The BBC

Says that the RNC has a database that contains information on every gun owner. They use it to troll for money and votes.

[suegeo]

19. A Link Between NRA and Cambridge Analytica

https://www.everytown.org/press/a-link-between-nra-and-cambridge-analytica/

So, it appears that the NRA has had a working relationship with Cambridge Analytica. Will the NRA come clean and explain the full extent of Cambridge Analytica’s work for the NRA, or work on NRA campaigns?

This also raises the fact that most of the money spent by the NRA to elect Trump was spent by an arm of the organization that is not required to disclose its donors, and according to McClatchy, NRA spending may have exceeded $70 million during the 2016 election.

So, did the collusion between Cambridge Analytica and the NRA morph into some other sinister plot to use gun data in say 2020? to target young, brain-not-fully-developed-yet, loners?