RNC PR BS doubts claims about Cambridge Analytica's importance to Trump campaign

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5 Hours Ago | 02:02

Former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said he wasn't sure how true some of the claims were about .. its influence on the U.S. presidential election ...

"I don't know how true some of these claims are," Priebus told CNBC in Hong Kong at the Credit Suisse Asian Investment Conference. "Certainly from the Republican National Committee standpoint, which was the data firm of the Trump campaign, which is what we built at the RNC, we didn't use Cambridge. So I don't know how true any of these claims are" ...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/reince-priebus-weighs-in-on-cambridge-analytica.html

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1. Steve Bannon at the Heart of Cambridge Analyticas Data Collection Operation

By ELLIOT HANNON
MARCH 20, 201811:24 PM

... Former Cambridge Analytica research director Chris Wylie, who has over the last week acted as a whistleblower divulging the internal functioning of the company, told the Post that Bannon was “deeply involved in the company’s strategy and approved spending nearly $1 million to acquire data, including Facebook profiles, in 2014.”

“We had to get Bannon to approve everything at this point. Bannon was Alexander Nix’s boss,” Wylie told the Post. “Alexander Nix didn’t have the authority to spend that much money without approval.” That puts Bannon squarely in the timeframe where the upstart data company was trying to build its trove in order to construct a database to target voters ...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/whistleblower-says-steve-bannon-was-at-the-heart-of-cambridge-analyticas-data-collection-operation.html

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2. So it was the Russians?

we didn't use Cambridge. So I don't know how true any of these claims are

Is he trying to say that the Russians used Cambridge?

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3. Maybe he's just practicing singing "It Ain't Me, Babe"