Donald Trump HACKED an Election
Before he was president, Trump tried to steal a vote from CNBC
I'm still not ready to fully come out and say the 2024 election was definitely hacked yet. But I'm getting close. The evidence is mounting, I'm collecting every piece of data I can get my hands on (unlike the MAGAts, we prefer to have actual evidence before whining that elections were rigged just because they didn't go our way), and I gotta say...it doesn't look good.
If I had to lay odds based on what I've seen so far, I'd say it's 80-85% likely the election was hacked and Elon was involved.
That said, this seems like a perfect time to give you another excerpt from The Trumpland Diary about the time Trump attempted to rig a different vote.
From TTD:
Michael Cohen was Trump's former personal attorney and "fixer." In 2020, he published a memoir — "Disloyal" — about his time working for Trump. He didn't make any attempt to whitewash his nefarious roles in a myriad of Trump's ethically-challenged and morally-dubious undertakings. Including that time they tried to steal a vote...
At the beginning of 2014, Trump was finally starting to seriously consider getting into the 2016 race. Around that time, CNBC was conducting an online poll to determine the 25 most influential business-people to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their network. Trump was one of the 200 businessmen listed as a candidate, alongside Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah, Warren Buffet, and the like. Unsurprisingly to just about everyone familiar with the list of candidates, Trump was sitting at 187 out of 200 after the first voting returns came in.
Donny Boy was irate.
Trump brought the daily operations of the entire Trump Organization to a screeching halt in order to address the egregious iniquity of his placement in an online poll for an informal award that some media outlet had just made up. Since you could only vote in the poll once from any device, Trump ordered everyone in his Organization to stop whatever they were doing and vote for him on every device they owned. Anyone who had additional computers or tablets at home was sent home from work to vote for the boss. When this company-wide subterfuge failed to move the needle at a national level, Trump ordered Cohen to somehow "fix" the situation.
Cohen had a good friend, John Gauger, who was the Chief Information Officer at Liberty University. Cohen had ingratiated himself to the higher-ups at Liberty for "fixing" a situation for Jerry Fallwell, Jr – the president of Liberty – and his wife involving some nude photos and a pool boy in Miami (that story eventually ended up getting out, as you may recall, turning out to be much, much worse than what Cohen was aware of at the time. Turns out those “morally upstanding” Fallwells were secretly into some really kinky sh*t with the pool boy!)
Anyway, Gauger had a side business called RedFinch Solutions, which provided SEO services and Internet reputation management. Within a day, he'd figured out a way to hack the algorithmic code CNBC's website was using to run the poll. But since they couldn't just hack in and give Trump a ton of votes from a single location, Gauger informed Cohen they'd need to purchase a boatload of IP addresses to rig the poll without detection. They weren't all that expensive – 100,000 IP addresses for $7,500, which Trump immediately authorized.
Gauger bought them up and ran the hack, vaulting Trump up to 29th place with plenty of time still to go.
Once he realized he'd leapfrogged from 187 to 29, Trump authorized another $7,500 to buy another 100,000 IP addresses. He wanted to win the entire thing, but Cohen and Gauger managed to convince him that would look too suspicious – possibly inviting the type of forensic audit that would get them all found out – and to just accept making it into the top 10. Trump begrudgingly acquiesced, and ended up coming in 9th.
According to Cohen, Trump spent the next day making and taking phone calls from everyone he knew to discuss his "winning" the "ninth-most-important businessman of the past 25 years in a CNBC poll." Although the Trump Organization was in the midst of working on a number of international real estate deals worth billions of dollars to the company, Trump just bailed on the business operations to boast to anyone who would listen about "winning" a poll in which he came in 9th, and only because he'd cheated to get there.
The following day, CNBC apparently figured out that something wasn't on the up and up, and disqualified Trump from the poll. Trump was incensed, taking to Twitter to declare
"The #CNBC 25 poll is a joke. I was in 9th place and taken off. (Politics?) No wonder @CNBC ratings are going down the tubes."
He ordered Cohen to call the president of CNBC and "threaten to sue them if they don't restore me to my rightful slot!" which Cohen obliged.
At Trump's behest, Cohen reiterated that "the voters had spoken," and CNBC had "zero right" to rescind what Trump had won "fair and square." (when it was discovered that small print in the poll said CNBC reserved the right to remove any candidate for any reason without explanation, Trump went ballistic and tried to get Cohen to float the story of his "very unfair treatment" to other media outlets. None of them took the bait.)
In the course of shouting at each other, the CNBC general counsel indicated to Cohen they had some idea what Trump had done, prompting Cohen to drop the matter, and convincing Trump to do the same. Trump eventually abandoned the idea of suing CNBC for cutting him from a poll he'd stolen from them, but he made hundreds of copies of a printout of the poll showing him in 9th place. He added a few copies to the pile of magazines and newspaper clippings he kept of himself on his desk, and passed out all the other copies to anyone who visited his office for the first time.
All of this for a vote the vast majority of Americans never even knew about, and the ones who did mostly forgot about a week later.
When John Gauger eventually sent over his invoice for the $15,000 he'd spent on IP addresses – plus the dozens of hours he and his team had spent cheating on Trump's behalf – Trump's response was, "I didn't get credit for my 9th place ranking, so why should I have to pay?" He stiffed Gauger on the bill.
Classic Trump.