The Most Surprising Miscalculation of Trump's Second Term

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6. Zuckerberg gave T the Electoral College in 2016

He illegally provided private user information to Cambridge Analytica, which used that info to micro-target political ads in key venues.

He was caught, tried, and convicted, and paid a paltry 30k fine. He got billions during Trump 1.0. Good ROI.

I believe CA was also active in Brexit, along with T's good buddy Nigel Farage.

Putin had his hand in, but T didn't need him to screw the 2016 election. Facebook was adequate. But the Russian government had been grooming T for decades, and was a big push to get him into politics. "Krasnov". I wonder how many other agents they had prepped to step into the arena.

Russia, or at least the Russian oligarchy, were the obvious beneficiaries of Brexit, but billionaires in general made out from it. It gave them an escape from the increasingly regulatory environment of the EU.