Questions for Tuesday's House panel

[deminks]

Why was Brad Parscale paid by the Trump campaign $88 mil for 18 months work? Nice gig for a website builder.

Why was Brad Parscale meeting with Donnie at Trump Tower the day before the Russians met with Junior? Coinkydink?

Why did Brad Parscale insist that Google, Facebook, Twitter, and all the other social MEdia send embeds who had to be Republicans who were loyal to the Donald?

I got a million more, but those three for starters.

/rant off

Link to tweet

[C_U_L8R]

1. $88M... what?

This guy was actually personally paid $88M ... or $88M was his budget for digital media shenanigans?

[deminks]

2. His firm was paid that much.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-campaign-digital-director-interviewed-house-intel-committee

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Parscale’s web design and digital marketing firm, Giles-Parscale, worked for the Trump campaign for 18 months and was reportedly paid $88 million for its work. Since the election, Parscale helped launch the America First Policies nonprofit and is also working on Trump’s reelection campaign.

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[Justice]

3. A few more questions - and some thoughts on the first three

Why was Brad Parscale paid by the Trump campaign $88 mil for 18 months work? Nice gig for a website builder.

- I'd frame this one differently - what was the $$$$ used for? What is the flow of funds? What were the sources and uses of money? Aka who paid who and generally for what? Did G-P pay CA for profiles?

Between October and the end of December 2015 - Trump campaign paid $21,000 to Giles-Parscale.
In June, 2016 the Trump campaign spent $1.63 million on digital advertising
In July 2016 - paid $8.4 million to firm, about 90 percent of which was spent on digital ads.
So spent huge amounts in August, September, October.

Why did Brad Parscale insist that Google, Facebook, Twitter, and all the other social MEdia send embeds who had to be Republicans who were loyal to the Donald? Honestly, I don't have an issue with this one - should not have leaks from vendors.

How did Brad Parscale figure out where Trump’s message was resonating in states such Michigan and Wisconsin?

How did he know who to target? Profiles, people, zip codes, etc.? Did social media give him info on people's posts and tweets?

How did he (physically and with what resources domestic and foreign) generate some 50,000 Facebook ads a day to establish which ones resonated best with voters.

Dark Posts
I'd like to know more about how he interacted with FB on doing dark posts.

Explain how Trump Campaign staff; Facebook, Google and Twitter; Giles-Parscale people; the RNC, and Cambridge Analytica worked side by side. What did each provide, how large was the staff for each. Who paid CA?

- Facebook, Twitter and Google employees embedded in President Donald Trump’s digital operations in San Antonio - how did this work, who paid for them and for their expenses. What data were they provided with? What vetting was done on content of ads? Who help generate the 50,000 variations (both the ideas and the production)?

-- let's see the raw data on the buys. Let's match it up with profiles supplied by CA, and find out from CA where underlying data for profiles came from.

G-P had 60 employees in September 2016 (although another article from August said they had 100). Hired some 100 more for balance of campaign. Where did these new employees come from?

Jill Gilles is the creative person on the team - what happened to her. Word is they have now split up.