Bring It On

Karen McDougal is suing AMI, the parent company of the National Enquirer, for a “multifaceted effort to silence her” after an affair w/ Donald Trump, per her lawyer.

President Trump must face a defamation suit filed by former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos, judge rules.

In 2011, Stormy Daniels told a polygraph examiner that she had unprotected sex with Donald Trump in 2006. The exam concluded she was being truthful, according to copy of report obtained by NBC News.

Meanwhile … Associated Press: Cambridge Analytica chief executive Alexander Nix has said in comments that were secretly recorded and broadcast Tuesday by Britain’s Channel 4 news that his company played a major role in securing Donald Trump’s narrow victory in the 2016 presidential election. “We did all the research, all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting, we ran all the digital campaign, the television campaign and our data informed all the strategy,” says Nix, whose company is being investigated by British officials for its handling of personal data gathered on Facebook.

And … Top litigator Theodore Olson turns down offer from Trump legal team.

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Deactivate Facebook

Today I deleted my Facebook accounts. Haven’t trusted the site for a long time, ever since I was harassed to turn over my cell phone number to “protect your privacy.” Same goes for Google.

Facebook’s prevarication until caught allowing data mining of users for political purposes is its right. But it’s also the right of users to say so long, we’re out of here.

Even here in our little corner of the Internets I do everything possible to block spammers, cookie archiving, bots, or any other nefarious storage of personal information by unfriendlies. The fact that Facebook not only didn’t make a similar effort, but instead apparently welcomed abuses for profit, ought to provoke its customers to question further affiliation.

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So Noted

A tweet by Andrew McCabe’s lawyer:

“We will not be responding to each childish, defamatory, disgusting &
false tweet by the President. The whole truth will come out in due course. But the tweets confirm that he has corrupted the entire process that led to Mr. McCabe’s termination and has rendered it illegitimate.”

— Michael R. Bromwich (@mrbromwich)

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