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Trump Brags About Cambridge Analytica

President Trump isn’t running away from the international scandal that is Cambridge Analytica. He’s running right into it – and bragging about it.
The president Thursday morning posted a tweet strongly suggesting that everything you’ve heard about what Cambridge Analytica did is true – and bragging about it as if it were highly sophisticated, instead of possibly criminal.
Remember when they were saying, during the campaign, that Donald Trump is giving great speeches and drawing big crowds, but he is spending much less money and not using social media as well as Crooked Hillary’s large and highly sophisticated staff. Well, not saying that anymore!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 22, 2018
Cambridge Analytica used data deceptively obtained from 50 million Facebook users, according to reports, then weaponized it instead of deleting it as it was supposed to do and claimed it did. Some say this was illegal.
This, the president chooses to brag about.
Image by Mike Licht via Flickr and a CC license
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