The Trump campaign’s digital nerve center in San Antonio set in gear its own strategy: Don’t expand the electorate; shrink it. Russia and the Trump campaign were calling plays out of the same playbook. On Oct. 24, 2016, Bloomberg reported, Trump’s team began placing spots about the “super predator” line on select African American radio stations and through nonpublic Facebook posts controlled by the Trump campaign. And that was a big — so thank you to the African American community.”Was it collusion or just a fortuitous concatenation of circumstances? Either way, the damage desired by the Trump campaign and the Russians was done.

Source: Washington Post February 23, 2018 23:37 UTC