It was voter data. Not some internal campaign poll.
This is vital to grasp.
donald was the nominee. His campaign had the full support of RNC & access to all their data. Reince, & pollster KellyAnne, knew key districts to flip (i.e where to run influence ops) for electoral win. /1 https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1383056202880405510
2/ Paul Manafort’s most recent campaign experience, prior to donald’s campaign, was in Ukraine - running influence ops as part of his larger job as campaign manager for the Kremlin’s operative there.

Here’s just one piece of how he did that. It was noted in his indictment. https://twitter.com/LincolnsBible/status/1026314355598450689
3/ Installing Putin’s stooge, Yanukovych, as President was literally Manafort’s job. Then, he joined Donald’s campaign.

But what Manafort was able to do for Putin in Ukraine was even more elaborate, precise, & effective than the traditional narrative manipulation tactics that...
4/... operatives like him, and his longtime partner Roger Stone, have always had (ex: tentacles into US press, like the NYTimes).

In Ukraine, Manafort ran an influence campaign using voter data & the Kremlin’s troll farms, to profile the audience/voters & customize content...
5/... content that was then pushed through online networks (existing news sites and even fake ones, which were crafted on the spot), and delivered into the SM feeds to the individual - based on belief set & grievances.

This was complex, but not hard to do. BUT...
6/... for outsiders, it was difficult to grasp at the time.

Not to worry. Republicans sent a congressional delegation to Ukraine, so that our leaders could grasp how these new-fangled, Kremlin-backed, influence campaigns worked. They saw the architecture, & they “got it”. https://twitter.com/LincolnsBible/status/1197557547680460800
7/ THIS has always been the story.
Always.
The Republican Party knew donald was owned by the Kremlin. They knew that Manafort worked for the Kremlin.
They aided & abetted the Kremlin’s wishes & actions to get their puppet elected POTUS.
They could have stopped it at any time. https://twitter.com/LincolnsBible/status/905605758242263041
8/ Instead, they installed him to destroy us.
To destroy democracy.
Because it’s now in their way for maintaining power.
Plus, many of them are owned. You don’t dance with a devil like the Kremlin, without forfeiting your soul.

Everything else is noise.

That party must end.
When Senate Intel Report vol 5 dropped... https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1295853732660490242
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