Watchdog claims Trump campaign illegally coordinated with a Super PAC in 2016 through its work with Cambridge Analytica
In its complaint, CLC claimed that newly "newly published Cambridge Analytica emails and other documents from the 2016 election cycle" provide additional evidence that "there is reason to believe that Make America Number 1 illegally made in-kind contributions to the Trump campaign in the form of coordinated communications."
"Among other things, the documents underscore how key Trump campaign officials—such as Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway—were involved in Cambridge Analytica's operations," CLC said in the complaint, which supplemented itsThe Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment on this story.
"The idea that this spending was at all independent is farcical and these emails underscore that," CLC lawyer Brendan Fischer told the , who first broke the story. "Cambridge Analytica not only misused people's personal data, but it was a conduit for the wealthy family that owned it to unlawfully support the Trump campaign in 2016."Make America Number 1, which was originally formed to support Sen. Ted Cruz, was predominantly funded by Mercer — who also established and financed Cambridge Analytica and was
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