“Amateurs”
Posted on 01/17/2019 8:06:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Washington (CNN): President Donald Trump's former "fixer" Michael Cohen paid the head of a small technology company thousands in 2015 to rig online polls and elevate Cohen's character to benefit Trump's presidential campaign, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
According to the paper, Cohen paid John Gauger, the owner of RedFinch Solutions LLC, between $12,000 and $13,000 for activities related to Trump's campaign, including "trying unsuccessfully to manipulate two online polls in Mr. Trump's favor" and creating a Twitter account called "@WomenForCohen" that "praised (Cohen's) looks and character, and promoted his appearances and statements boosting" Trump's candidacy.
In making the claim, Gauger told the paper he wasn't fully paid for the work, though the Journal said Cohen was reimbursed $50,000 -- the amount the two originally agreed on for Gauger's services -- by the Trump Organization. Gauger, according to the paper, also received a boxing glove "worn by a Brazilian mixed-martial arts fighter" along with the cash payment.
The paper said that Cohen denied paying Gauger in cash, instead telling the Journal that "all monies paid to Mr. Gauger were by check" and declining to comment further. The Trump Organization did not comment. Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for Trump, told the paper that the allegation that Cohen received more money than what he paid to Gauger shows he's a "thief."
In a statement to CNN Thursday, Cohen said his actions were "at the direction of and for the sole benefit of Donald J. Trump. I truly regret my blind loyalty to a man who doesn't deserve it."
The Journal said that Cohen's reimbursement was made around the same time that he received a $130,000 reimbursement from Trump for expenses incurred during the 2016 election.
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Another Avanetti slime ball.
Unsuccessful? I saw Trump won a lot of online polls!
Twelve thousands, on the national political level, is insulting.
The alphabet networks spend many hundreds of thousands in rigging polls.
And it is nice to see that someone on the Trump team knows how to fight, and fight fire with fire.
This is a stretch. Cohen created a fake twitter account called "women for Cohen" that he used to praise his own amazing looks and general awesomeness and that is somehow to the benefit of Trump?
And it worked, didn’t it. What law was broken? None.
Push polling? Whatever will they think of next?
He was promoting himself by association with Trump. He was on his own.
I have been expecting this story. It was only a matter of time before they made this one up. Just give them time and they will find SOME SORT of proof.
lol total bs I never saw one poll showing Trump in the lead
I agree. I don't see a connection. Makes no sense.
Onions? Relish? Pickles?
Man this nothing burger doesn’t even make the $1 menu.
What is being alleged????
They were supposedly paid with cash inside “blue walmart bags” although Cohen disputes that and said they were paid by check. :-)
IT consultants paid to rig online polls? Online polls? Who cares? Probably done by everyone.
“Amateurs”
1. “manipulate on-line polls” - hahahaha, he paid thousands? He should have just Freeped the polls - lying chump.
2. What polls showed Trump winning?
What a Buffoon, Presiident Trump was behind in most polls
He could have signed up here, donated the money, and organized a FREEP. He'd have gotten a much better result, too.
-PJ
This is stupid. Everyone rigs those stupid polls. And the people who put those polls up, know they are crap polls. This is a story that everyone knows is false, especially those who are writing it and reprinting it.
Whereas the lamestream media kept boosting Hillary’s percentage as more than Trump’s.
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