A whistleblowing Cambridge Analyitica employee gave The Guardian the 27-page internal document it calls Trump’s blueprint for victory, detailing its use of social media platforms to both disseminate ads and false claims and determine which were most effective in a continuous feedback loop. It’s fascinating reading, and remember this is all not only legal but in use to peddle all sorts of products already — products like laundry soap, guns and political candidates. Both sides will be using this by 2020. By 2024 they’ll be using it to pick candidates.
Trump set a new American record for flip-flopping: A little over 5 hours after tweeting that he was considering a veto of the shutdown-averting $1.3 trillion spending bill, he signed it. “I will never sign another bill like this again,” he said, calling it a “ridiculous situation.”
The comeback for the as-seen-on-TV Toensing-diGenova tag team might be brief. CNN reports that Trump is worried that Toensing represents Mark Corrallo, who has spoken to the Mueller probe about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with the Russians, special counsel Robert Mueller’s team about how the President and his team and former Trump campaign national co-chair Sam Clovis, who NBC News reported also talked to the special counsel.
WaPo has documents showing George Papadopoulos had more contacts with Russians than heretofore known, and his superiors seem to have known about it.
Elon Musk joins #deletefacbook, as pages for both Tesla and SpaceX disappeared from the platform.