Former Donald Trump personal lawyer Michael Cohen hired a outside tech consultant to gin up enthusiasm about Trump’s business acumen and presidential chances, which included attempts to rig online polls by Drudge Report and CNBC, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal.
Cohen used the consultant John Gauger on and off for several years and also stiffed him out of his full payment, the paper reported, billing the Trump Organization $50,000 for the services of Gauger’s RedFinch Solutions — but only paying the consultant between $12,000 and $13,000.
The piece by Michael Rothfeld, Rob Barry and Joe Palazzolo said that Cohen hired Gauger to artificially drum up Trump’s numbers in a CNBC poll about the nation’s top business leaders in 2014 by writing a computer program that would repeatedly vote for the billionaire. The gambit didn’t work, but in a Drudge Report poll a year later, Gauger...
Cohen used the consultant John Gauger on and off for several years and also stiffed him out of his full payment, the paper reported, billing the Trump Organization $50,000 for the services of Gauger’s RedFinch Solutions — but only paying the consultant between $12,000 and $13,000.
The piece by Michael Rothfeld, Rob Barry and Joe Palazzolo said that Cohen hired Gauger to artificially drum up Trump’s numbers in a CNBC poll about the nation’s top business leaders in 2014 by writing a computer program that would repeatedly vote for the billionaire. The gambit didn’t work, but in a Drudge Report poll a year later, Gauger...
- 1/17/2019
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
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