Look what this fucker has done now: Trump 2016 campaign shakedown of facebook

[MelissaB]

Last edited Sat Nov 23, 2019, 04:52 PM - Edit history (1)

The Trump campaign needed a line of credit from Facebook. They spoke to Facebook employee James Barnes, embedded with the campaign, and threatened that Trump would go on TV and "say Facebook was being unfair to him" if they didn't get it.

They got it.

Link to tweet

[cilla4progress]

1. Ad

nauseum!

[TheBlackAdder]

18. Since Trump doesn't pay his bills, what happened to that line of credit's settlement?

[trueblue2007]

20. TRUMP WON'T PAY HIS BILLS !! He will owe Facebook $9,573,068,726,00 and Zuck will just eat the bill

[TheBlackAdder]

25. So that gets claimed as income by Trump and a loss for FB. If only 😂

[2naSalit]

31. He'll insist on being paid in

natural resources like ownership of a national forest or park.

[mopinko]

2. more extortion.

the way these idiots try the same play over and over, laying it out plainly once, and a lot of things start making sense to the jury.

[RainCaster]

3. Facebook will get stiffed, and they deserve it

[we can do it]

4. Hopefully stiffed out of existence.

[drmeow]

24. My thoughts exactly nt

[AllaN01Bear]

5. every time i walk away from here , that thing in the w.h gets into more and more trouble .

[Doodley]

32. America is in trouble. Trump's never in trouble as long as his base and GOP lawmakers stick with him

[Marie Marie]

6. Mr. "I am soooooo Rich" needs a line of credit from Facefuck

and they fold. I give up!

[MelissaB]

7. PS. Headline chosen because of this

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212722069

[mfcorey1]

8. There is no limit to what these thugs will do! We are in a mafia tactics era!

[Buckeyeblue]

9. I predict that within a couple of years Facebook will be worth next to nothing

That's what Trump does to businesses.

[Grasswire2]

10. Facebook employee is embedded with the campaign???

We need to chase down info on this FB employee James Barnes.

Is he living above his income from his FB job?

What's going on here?

Does he also get to play at Adult Playground Camp David?

[MelissaB]

15. I believe this was from the 2016 campaign.

[SWBTATTReg]

11. The idiot has raised over $300 million from what I've heard. What the world is going on...

here? He's offered campaign funds to others to help in running for their elected offices again.

Is this a massive fraud on ripping the money off his campaign to pay off his business creditors? Sounds more and more like it.

[spanone]

12. That how mob bosses work.

[scarletwoman]

13. Except, this isn't about NOW, it's about the 2016 campaign.

The actual headline at the WSJ is:

How a Facebook Employee Helped Trump Win—But Switched Sides for 2020
James Barnes is now focused on using digital-ad strategies to try to get Trump out of office

I'm sorry, but your subject line is very misleading.

[MelissaB]

16. I thought people would pick that up.

I'll try to find a way to change it.

[scarletwoman]

17. Thank you, your change was exactly on target!

What I was seeing in many posts in this thread was the assumption being made that the subject is the 2020 campaign - largely due, I think, to people not actually clicking on the WSJ link embedded in the tweet.

[Newest Reality]

14. Just put it on the tab...

You know, the one that NEVER gets paid.

Why not just call it free and get it over with? This is silly. Facebook, you are giving are giving the campaign a donation that you can claim as a loss. Get with it.

[Zoonart]

19. They are a Criminal Cartel.!

[BigmanPigman]

21. Didn't Fuckerberg have dinner at the W House last week?

What was that about?

[Sloumeau]

23. Maybe he's still looking to get paid. :)

[Blue Owl]

26. Fuckkkerberg was probably flashing white supremacy sign with Dipshit Donny

Fuckkk the both of their lousy, miserable asses.

[Sloumeau]

22. Holy Moly, the Trump campaign did a shakedown on Facebook.

[Zambero]

27. Mr. Z will be eating this one

He's now the proud dispenser of a line of very BAD credit.

[underpants]

28. What difference would it make?

Facebook is for old people (like me) who tune in to see how people they'd forgotten about are doing....oh, old people. I've got it.

[bucolic_frolic]

29. That cooperation shakedown will destroy FB

Companies go the way of dinosaurs quickly. It's already begun.

[rockfordfile]

30. I don't buy it, that he as of just now has a conscious. The guy is un-American

Facebook is un-American company.

[LiberalLovinLug]

33. Benadict Zuckerberg

[Kurt V.]

34. agree with the replies above the don vito trump is running his administration

like a mafia organization. However these moves seem legal if not unethical or normal. my worry is how domestic and international corporations will reacte in the future regarding the presidency and their willingness to be extorted for favors.

[stillcool]

35. what was the line of credit for?

I can't read the article, so don't quite get why Trump would need a line of credit.

[NCLefty]

36. Wait... Facebook gives loans?!

[Duppers]

37. K & R