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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Not news the media does it every day.
He’s guilty of Obstruction of Hillary!
So? I thought that was marketing.
Isn’t what we do when we FREEP A POLL? :-)
LOL...so true!!
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
I don’t remember any polls that had Trump ahead in 2016.
Is FReeping an online poll illegal now? Uh oh...
Oh yeah. Polls said he would lose. They were rigged alright.
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.
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!!!!!!
LOL!
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.
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.
I’d like to hear what Redfinch Solutions has to say.
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.
The results of any poll depend on the agenda. Michael Cohen must have some really bad stuff in his closet to be this stupid.
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.
Yeah like the polls saying his approval dropped 12 points in three days in October 2016.
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