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Michael Cohen: rigging polls 'was at the direction of' Trump
Reuters ^ | 1/17 | Reuters

Posted on 01/17/2019 9:48:17 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue

Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, said on Thursday he paid a firm to manipulate online polling data "at the direction of and for the sole benefit of" Trump.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Cohen had paid the data firm RedFinch Solutions to manipulate two public opinion polls in favor of Trump before the 2016 presidential campaign.

"As for the @WSJ article on poll rigging," Cohen wrote on Twitter on Thursday, "what I did was at the direction of and for the sole benefit of @realDonaldTrump @POTUS. I truly regret my blind loyalty to a man who doesn't deserve it."

The attempts to influence the polls ultimately proved largely unsuccessful but shed a light on the tactics of the Trump campaign and Cohen's role within it. On the campaign trail, Trump frequently referred to his polling numbers to help fuel his candidacy

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cohen; gettrump; internet; lying; michaelcohen; mylawyer; pollrigging; polls; primaries; primary; setup; sleazeball; tangledupinblue; trump; trumpers; trumpies; trumplawyer
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Not news the media does it every day.


41 posted on 01/17/2019 10:10:21 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

He’s guilty of Obstruction of Hillary!


42 posted on 01/17/2019 10:11:03 AM PST by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

So? I thought that was marketing.


43 posted on 01/17/2019 10:11:18 AM PST by Agatsu77
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Isn’t what we do when we FREEP A POLL? :-)


44 posted on 01/17/2019 10:12:03 AM PST by Ikemeister
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To: sparklite2
He spent literally THOUSANDS of dollars. And here we’ve been FReeping polls for free!

LOL...so true!!

45 posted on 01/17/2019 10:12:06 AM PST by Cuttnhorse (Never fear the cow)
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To: rktman

I see twitter polls all the time non stop in fact..those of course can be easily manipulated..I honestly dont trust ANY polls because I think they are all a bunch of lies..the ONLY true poll is on election day


46 posted on 01/17/2019 10:12:19 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Mr. K
Okay. He is either an evil genius or an idiot. Which is it?
47 posted on 01/17/2019 10:13:26 AM PST by themidnightskulker (And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I don’t remember any polls that had Trump ahead in 2016.


48 posted on 01/17/2019 10:13:45 AM PST by outpostinmass2
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Is FReeping an online poll illegal now? Uh oh...


49 posted on 01/17/2019 10:16:54 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Oh yeah. Polls said he would lose. They were rigged alright.


50 posted on 01/17/2019 10:18:49 AM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

The whole point of this story is the resulting headline. People with Trump Derangement Syndrome will “see” that it is confirmed that Trump was involved with “rigging the polls”! They will jump to the conclusion that candidate Donald Trump rigged the voting and never read the article.


51 posted on 01/17/2019 10:19:27 AM PST by the_Watchman
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Oh Lord!!! ROFL!!! That is hilarious...Most all the “polls” showed Hillary as the sure winner...All the Lame Stream Media had Hillary as the foregone winner....

Cohen sure as hell didn’t get his money’s worth, did he???

ROFLMAO!!!!!!


52 posted on 01/17/2019 10:19:41 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: sparklite2

LOL!


53 posted on 01/17/2019 10:20:42 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: pfflier

Trump had no reason to want polls to be rigged in is favor way back in 2016

He would have been more interested to know true fully if a lot of American citizens wanted him to be president.


54 posted on 01/17/2019 10:21:30 AM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: Zathras

The word was, prior to the election, that Hillary was favored 95%.

Of course that helped Trump cause it caused Hillary to be over confident so she didn’t campaign in some areas that she thought she would win easily.


55 posted on 01/17/2019 10:23:48 AM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I’d like to hear what Redfinch Solutions has to say.


56 posted on 01/17/2019 10:25:34 AM PST by ironman
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To: TangledUpInBlue

LOL. What is wrong with trying to influence online polls? The Dems use phony dossiers to take down Trump during the campaign, the transition, and as a sitting President. They coordinated with a compliant MSM to defeat Trump as Wikileaks documents. And during the past midterms, we had vote harvesting.


57 posted on 01/17/2019 10:28:01 AM PST by kabar
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To: TangledUpInBlue

The results of any poll depend on the agenda. Michael Cohen must have some really bad stuff in his closet to be this stupid.


58 posted on 01/17/2019 10:28:38 AM PST by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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To: Mariner

All polls are rigged in some manner.

Mostly it is what questions are asked and how they are worded.

Those polls that showed Hillary at 95% sure to win the election helped Trump, made dems so sure of Hillary’s win that a lot probably didn’t vote cause My Damm President was sure to win.

Are those the polls that Trump had rigged?

I doubt that.

But they did help him.


59 posted on 01/17/2019 10:28:51 AM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Yeah like the polls saying his approval dropped 12 points in three days in October 2016.


60 posted on 01/17/2019 10:30:10 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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