Trump runs for POTUS/ Trumped Up! Part VII

[Biscuit]

Fabrizio: You're losing.
Donald: The Drudge and Breitbart online polls have me in a landslide!
Fabrizio: Those aren't real polls.
Donald: That's not what I want to hear. You're not getting paid!

My favorite part of the article is learning that campaign manager Kellyann Conway's own polling firm as been paid $673,000 by the campaign she is running, must be nice.

 

[Spindrift]

My favorite part of the article is learning that campaign manager Kellyann Conway's own polling firm as been paid $673,000 by the campaign she is running, must be nice.

It's a tip she got from Trump. Bill as much to yourself as possible. He plans to make a profit off the election, win or lose.

 

[jimbob]

My favorite part of the article is learning that campaign manager Kellyann Conway's own polling firm as been paid $673,000 by the campaign she is running, must be nice.

Shows how crooked Killary is.

They are both female aren't they?

 

[Biscuit]

It's a tip she got from Trump. Bill as much to yourself as possible. He plans to make a profit off the election, win or lose.

I think his whole campaign is just a large shell game that has actually gone beyond his control. He thought he would fly around the states for 6 months on his company jet, staying at trump properties, catered by trump caterers, holding events in trump ball rooms and bill the whole thing to his campaign funded by selling hats. Any amount he gave was a loan and if not paid back could probably be used to write off his taxes for a few decades. Then he won and he has been winging ever since.

 

[Spindrift]

I think his whole campaign is just a large shell game that has actually gone beyond his control. He thought he would fly around the states for 6 months on his company jet, staying at trump properties, catered by trump caterers, holding events in trump ball rooms and bill the whole thing to his campaign funded by selling hats. Any amount he gave was a loan and if not paid back could probably be used to write off his taxes for a few decades. Then he won and he has been winging ever since.

I have a little bit of morbid curiosity in me that wants him to win, just to watch the train wreck of a Trump presidency. It's only a little bit, but god it would be fascinating to watch. If I was an alien visiting this planet, I'd definitely say, "Screw the prime directive, I have to get this guy elected. I'll have stories to tell back on Mbflorm for 50 bleems."

 

[Tony Stark]

FBI's Comey opposed naming Russians, citing election timing: Source

FBI Director James Comey argued privately that it was too close to Election Day for the United States government to name Russia as meddling in the U.S. election and ultimately ensured that the FBI's name was not on the document that the U.S. government put out, a former FBI official tells CNBC.

The official said some government insiders are perplexed as to why Comey would have election timing concerns with the Russian disclosure but not with the Huma Abedin email discovery disclosure he made Friday.

Hmm, I wonder why.

ETA: I ment to post this in the Hillary thread, but I will leave it here because it relates to Donald too as the Russians are trying to influence it in his direction.

 

[dudalb]

I have a little bit of morbid curiosity in me that wants him to win, just to watch the train wreck of a Trump presidency. It's only a little bit, but god it would be fascinating to watch. If I was an alien visiting this planet, I'd definitely say, "Screw the prime directive, I have to get this guy elected. I'll have stories to tell back on Mbflorm for 50 bleems."

Problem is a lot of innocent people would suffer in the Trainwreck.

 

[Belz...]

Problem is a lot of innocent people would suffer in the Trainwreck.

The Mbflormians don't care much about primitive Earthling life.

 

[Crossbow]

Since Trump is charged up about the latest e-mail issue and since Trump often does exactly the wrong thing when given a chance to sort out his own campaign,

then I predict that this issue will actually hurt the Trump campaign far more than it will help the Trump campaign.

 

[TragicMonkey]

since Trump often does exactly the wrong thing when given a chance to sort out his own campaign

Someone should tell him "never put salt in your eyes".

 

[dudalb]

Since Trump is charged up about the latest e-mail issue and since Trump often does exactly the wrong thing when given a chance to sort out his own campaign,

then I predict that this issue will actually hurt the Trump campaign far more than it will help the Trump campaign.

I hope that Clinton campaing hits this hard.

 

[Stacko]

I hope that Clinton campaing hits this hard.

They're using it to bring the Donald/Putin discussion back in the public eye since it's claimed Comey is sitting on potential evidence of backdoor dealings between Donald's campaign and Putin.

 

[Frank Newgent]

https://twitter.com/Writeintrump/status/791382589806292992/photo/1

 

[Stacko]

Speaking of Russia.

The FBI has been conducting a preliminary inquiry into Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort's foreign business connections, law enforcement and intelligence sources told NBC News Monday.

Word of the inquiry, which has not blossomed into a full-blown criminal investigation, comes just days after FBI Director James Comey's disclosure that his agency is examining a new batch of emails connected to an aide to Hillary Clinton.

And it comes a day after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid criticized Comey's revelation and asserted that Comey possesses "explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors, and the Russian government."

 

[Tony Stark]

Speaking of Russia.

I wonder why Comey didn't feel the need to disclose this. Not that he should have.

 

[Stacko]

I wonder why Comey didn't feel the need to disclose this. Not that he should have.

And there might be server issues for the Orange Menace as well.

In late July, one of these scientists—who asked to be referred to as Tea Leaves, a pseudonym that would*protect his relationship with the networks and banks that employ him to sift their data—found what looked like malware emanating from Russia.*The destination domain had Trump in its name, which of course attracted Tea Leaves’ attention. But his discovery of the data was pure happenstance—a surprising needle in a large haystack of DNS lookups on his screen. “I have an outlier here that connects to Russia in a strange way,” he wrote in his notes. He couldn’t quite figure it out at first. But what he saw was a bank in Moscow that kept irregularly pinging a server registered to the Trump Organization on Fifth Avenue.

More data was needed, so he began carefully keeping logs of the Trump server’s DNS activity. As he collected the logs, he would circulate them in periodic batches to colleagues in the cybersecurity world. Six of them began scrutinizing them for clues.

...

The researchers quickly dismissed their initial fear that the logs represented a malware attack. The communication wasn’t the work of bots. The irregular pattern of server lookups actually resembled the pattern of human conversation—conversations that began during office hours in New York and continued during office hours in Moscow. It dawned on the researchers that this wasn’t an attack, but a sustained relationship between a server registered to the Trump Organization and two servers registered to an entity called Alfa Bank.

The researchers had initially stumbled in their diagnosis because of the odd configuration of Trump’s server. “I’ve never seen a server set up like that,” says Christopher Davis, who runs the cybersecurity firm HYAS InfoSec Inc. and won a FBI Director Award for Excellence for his work tracking down the authors of one of the world’s nastiest botnet attacks. “It looked weird, and it didn’t pass the sniff test.” The server was first registered to Trump’s business in 2009 and was set up to run consumer marketing campaigns.*It had a history of sending mass emails on behalf of Trump-branded properties and products. Researchers were ultimately convinced that the server indeed belonged to Trump. (Click here to see the server’s registration record.) But now this capacious server handled a strangely small load of traffic, such a small load that it would be hard for a company to justify the expense and trouble it would take to maintain it. “I get more mail in a day than the server handled,” Davis says.

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Earlier this month, the group of computer scientists passed the logs to Paul Vixie. In the world of DNS experts, there’s no higher authority. Vixie wrote central strands of the DNS code that makes the internet work. After studying the logs, he concluded, “The parties were communicating in a secretive fashion. The operative word is secretive. This is more akin to what criminal syndicates do if they are putting together a project.” Put differently, the logs suggested that Trump and Alfa had configured something like a digital hotline connecting the two entities, shutting out the rest of the world, and designed to obscure its own existence. Over the summer, the scientists observed the communications trail from a distance.

ETA: To summarize the Trump Organization had a server designed to secretly, exclusively communicate with a Russian bank.

 

[Tony Stark]

And there might be server issues for the Orange Menace as well.

Holy ****.

And Trump Tower is located on Fifth Avenue and obviously that is where the campaign headquarters is.

 

[steve s]

Back in 1996, Trump showed up uninvited to the ribbon-cutting ceremony of a nursery for kids with AIDS. Trump hadn't donated a dime to the facility, but that didn't stop him from jumping up onto the stage with the people who had donated. He even took the seat of a major donor, forcing the guy to stand in the crowd.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/trump-often-stole-credit-for-other-peoples-charity-when-he-actually-donated-it-was-to-benefit-himself?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+NP_Top_Stories+(National+Post+-+Top+Stories)

Trump was not a major donor. He was not a donor, period. He’d never given a dollar to the nursery or the Association to Benefit Children, according to Gretchen Buchenholz, the charity’s executive director then and now.

But now he was sitting in Fisher’s seat, next to Giuliani.

“Frank Gifford turned to me and said, ‘Why is he here?’ ” Buchenholz recalled recently. By then, the ceremony had begun. There was nothing to do.

Classy.

Steve S

 

[Belz...]

And there might be server issues for the Orange Menace as well.



ETA: To summarize the Trump Organization had a server designed to secretly, exclusively communicate with a Russian bank.

 

[dudalb]

God, we could have a modern version of King Charles the Second of England,who ,while King of England was basically on Louis the XIV's..the King of France's.... payroll......