FOX News: Michael Cohen levels new allegation, claims he worked to rig online polls at Trump’s direction
Michael Cohen, the president’s former fixer who was recently sentenced to three years in prison, leveled a new allegation Thursday at President Trump by claiming his former boss directed him to rig online polls ahead of the 2016 presidential race.
Cohen tweeted the allegation after the Wall Street Journal published a story saying he paid thousands of dollars to a man named John Gauger of the company RedFinch to try to boost Trump’s standing in two polls. One was a 2014 CNBC online poll of the country’s top business leaders; the other was a 2015 online Drudge Report poll of potential Republican presidential candidates.
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WNU Editor: The original source for the story is IT consultant John Gauger who feels that he was "stiffed" by Michael Cohen in not being properly paid. Michael Cohen has responded by denying that he paid cash to the consultant (it was by check), while saying that he was under the direction of then civilian Donald Trump. What's my take. To me online polls are nothing but click-bait, and not to be treated as serious. Manipulating a Drudge poll certainly does not excite me, and on top of everything else this so-called manipulation did not even worked. What is more serious to me are companies like Google fixing their search engine results to favour Democrat - Progressive websites. Or Facebook altering their news feeds to omit conservative pages and sites. Or main stream media news sites pushing political narratives that they support, but omit those that they do not. But alas, very little if any media focus on this (IMHO) far bigger story.
More News On Former Donald Trump Lawyer Claiming He Rigged Online Polls At Trump's Direction
Cohen Hired IT Firm to Rig Early CNBC, Drudge Polls to Favor Trump -- WSJ
Cohen says Trump directed him to pay for poll rigging -- CNN
Ex-Trump lawyer: rigging polls 'was at the direction of' Trump -- Reuters
Michael Cohen hired evangelical university's IT consultant for $50,000 to RIG early online polls for Trump and create sex-symbol 'Women for Cohen' Twitter account – but 'stiffed' him with smaller payment in cash -- Daily Mail
