More of his campaign rally lies made the First Tweets this morning.
More pandering to the evangelicals, attacking another, richer challenger, and quoting from Fox & Friends. America already has a POTUS* who’s “not the ‘smartest person’”.
There are no new steel plants, period (two are unshuttered, maybe), and the real story is how one of Trump’s Russian oligarchs will get the same profits from steel fence slats that he got from the XL pipeline.
And last night he considered his wall a kind of dare.
The real stories will come from investigating how the smoldering arsenal has a data mining overlap among foreign and domestic co-conspirators, much like the Mercer-funded firm whose staff migrated to the Trump campaign from Cruz in 2016.
Coming amidst a firestorm of scrutiny about how political operations can use and harvest consumer information, including from social media networks like Facebook, the UpGuard Cyber Risk Team can now reveal that a large code repository originating from AggregateIQ, a Canadian political data firm active in the 2016 US presidential race, was left publicly downloadable online. Revealed within this repository is a set of sophisticated applications, data management programs, advertising trackers, and information databases that collectively could be used to target and influence individuals through a variety of methods, including automated phone calls, emails, political websites, volunteer canvassing, and Facebook ads. Also exposed among these tools are numerous credentials, keys, hashes, usernames, and passwords to access other AIQ assets, including databases, social media accounts, and Amazon Web Services repositories, raising the possibility of attacks by any malicious actors encountering the exposure.
This exposure reveals how applications and web assets apparently developed by AggregateIQ (AIQ), a small firm of twenty employees based in Victoria, British Columbia, were customized for the failed 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), as well as for Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott and a number of foreign political parties and figures. The Cruz connection raises obvious questions about the relationship of AggregateIQ to Cambridge Analytica (CA), a controversial London-based data analytics firm which was paid $5.8 million dollars by the Cruz campaign for services rendered in his unsuccessful bid for the GOP presidential nomination.