This is a big deal. It was previously thought that the Mercers switched support from Cruz to Trump in May 2016, bringing Mercer's Cambridge Analytica with them. In fact CA worked for Cruz while contracted to Trump, then gave Trump all Cruz's data 1/ https://twitter.com/ProfessorShaw/status/1317279226576470020

So Cruz's campaign contributors were unknowingly paying for Trump's data. AND the whole idea that CA switched sides is a smokescreen. They were with Trump all along. Think about the timeline. 2/

Trump was already Russia's guy. Manafort and Kilimnik (Russian intelligence agent) were already discussing whether Manafort could join the Trump team in September 2015. Ran it by Sam Patten, long-time associate of Kilimnik who worked for SCL in 2014 on US election beta-run

They were working for Trump/Bannon BEFORE they signed on to work with http://Leave.EU  on November 3rd, 2015. Bannon kept saying Brexit and Trump 2016 were one event and they were.