Sam Nunberg might know how Trump coordinated with Kremlin.

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MSNBC guests have been asking the question — how did the Kremlin troll farms coordinate with the Trump campaign? Who was the go-between?

If you’re going to use Kremlin social media troll operations to beat the Republican establishment candidates in the primaries, and eventually the Dem candidate, it wouldn’t make sense to use a bunch of Russian hipsters to make things up.

With Facebook and Twitter etc. they had their targets. What they needed was messaging content. And they needed to coordinate content with the Trump campaign without direct communication.

In a Washington Post piece a Russian talked about working for a trolling operation in late 2014.

You got a list of topics to write about.

Talk radio would make an excellent go-between. Its a ubiquitous loud coordinated messaging juggernaut in 40 states with 80 senators, available nearly all day long. Why not piggyback years of existing divisive racist propaganda and lies?

Reporter Gabriel Sherman and Trump operative Sam Nunberg are regular guests on the cable shows and may know the answer if asked the right questions.

From Operation Trump, by Gabriel Sherman April 3, 2016:

Throughout 2014, the three, Roger Stone, Michael Cohen, and Sam Nunberg fed Trump strategy memos and political intelligence. “I listened to thousands of hours of talk radio, and he was getting reports from me,” Nunberg recalled. What those reports said was that the GOP base was frothing over a handful of issues including immigration, Obamacare, and Common Core.

Nunberg was there but if he won’t say, Sherman may have relevant information from his interview that he may have left out.

Nunberg needs to be asked about this.

If the Trump city boys wanted to connect with the base why not just use Fox, which is the cartoon Cliff Notes for talk radio? Or Limbaugh’s sanitized transcriptions, which are provided as a guide for the rest of the Republican talkers, Fox blowhards, and many Republican politicians? That would be a lot easier and cheaper for cheapskate Trump.

Unlike Fox ‘News’, talk radio would help Russians coordinate social media messaging to specific state and local issues. For example, this morning the local blowhard on the Limbaugh station, which uses state university sports to attract advertising, paired up with a guest from a local GOP think tank to attack an effort to raise taxes for education.

Which talk show hosts did Nunberg listen to? Were those in states targeted by the Kremlin?

And who paid Nunberg? Did Trump pay with campaign funds? Laundered money?

Roger Stone, Jerome Corsi, and Randy Credico involved in the Wikileaks business are all talk radio veterans. And Roger Stone goes way back with Paul Manafort. Corsi’s swiftboat campaign vs John Kerry relied heavily on months of talk radio repetition. According to Jeffrey Toobin in a 6/2/2008 New Yorker piece on Roger Stone, “The Dirty Trickster”, Stone was using talk radio way back in 2000.

Stone decided to concentrate at first on “the atmospherics,” as he put it, which in Miami means radio. Several Spanish-language stations in the city devoted themselves entirely to talk about politics; no print or television outlets could match their influence. The most powerful of these was Radio Mambi, a fifty-thousand-watt station, whose principal owner and on-air voice was Armando Perez-Roura, a Cuban exile who was known as the Cuban-American community’s Rush Limbaugh.

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“The idea we were putting out there was that this was a left-wing power grab by Gore, the same way Fidel Castro did it in Cuba. We were very explicitly drawing that analogy.”

But maybe the Kremlin wasn’t a passive user. Even better if you could feed the talk radio gods.

Limbaugh is 100% Trump along with Hannity. Most stations will follow Limbaugh's lead. Limbaugh attacked Rubio and Bush in the primaries, while making excuses for Trump. And Hannity was involved with Cohen in some real estate deals.

Limbaugh, the guy who is always downplaying the political cost to Republicans of shutting down government, might as well be working for Putin today as he gets credit for making sure Trump doesn’t back down. He’s showing who’s really in charge.

Does Putin have kompromat on Limbaugh, like from when he visited the Dominican Republic in 2007, known then for its sex industry, and got caught at the airport with someone else’s jug of prescription viagra?

That was about when Breitbart started competing with Drudge as a mechanism for feeding talk radio.

The possibility of Putin using talk radio, the only unique Republican advantage, goes back at least to 2008 when Manafort was McCain campaign cochair. McCain was thinking about Pawlenty and even Lieberman. Limbaugh wouldn’t support McCain, a looming disaster for the GOP convention. Minutes before the start of the Limbaugh show on the Friday before the GOP convention McCain publicly chose Palin and Limbaugh used the announcement to finally support McCain. Did he have prior knowledge of it? At that time Alaska Gov Palin was being courted by Russians re oil and gas.

Steve Schmidt could also be asked about that. He feels responsible for convincing McCain to pick Palin but Russian operative Paul Manafort was there too.

In 2009 Limbaugh started the “Climategate” hoax based on Russian-hacked emails, a development timed to sabotage Obama at the Copenhagen climate talks. Every year we delay on global warming is worth billions to Putin.

In 2011 Limbaugh spent 2 months trying to get Republicans to force the US to default, something Putin would enjoy more that any US billionaire.

Now he’s pushing Trump for a government shutdown.

And since Republican radio has been shown to use paid callers, why not Kremlin callers instead of Heritage Foundation callers? That automated call screening software might be very easy to hack. Those would be trolls too, before social media.

MSNBC hosts give Sam Nunberg a lot of time. They need to ask him about studying talk radio for Trump in 2014.