Google Attempts Quiet Takeover of Trump White House

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Google Attempts Quiet Takeover of Trump White House
WH advisor cautions: "Google head Schmidt, a top Hillary advisor, cozies up to Trump"
by Jerome Corsi | Infowars.com - January 31, 2017 452 Comments
http://www.infowars.com/google-attempts-stealth-coup-of-trump-white-house/

  "NEW YORK – Eric Schmidt, the founder of the multinational conglomerate
   Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, is making a run to become
   a Trump insider, intending hopefully to reverse the political damage
   done by the strong support he and Google gave to the Obama
   administration for eight years and to Hillary Clinton in her 2016
   presidential campaign.
   
   On Dec. 14, 2016, Schmidt was included in a group of prominent tech
   industry executives that met with then President-elect Donald Trump in
   a much-publicized meeting.
   
   Then on Jan. 17, 2017, Politico reported that Schmidt was sited at an
   unannounced visit to Trump Tower, where he lunched privately with Jared
   Kushner, Trump's real estate magnate son-in-law married to Trump's
   daughter Ivanka in 2009, who has emerged to be named a Senior Advisor
   to his father-in-law in the White House.
   
   
   Eric Schmidt – Executive Chairman, Google. PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images
   
   Schmidt's charm offensive
   
   Trump's long-time advisor Roger Stone expressed to INFOWARS.com
   concerns shared by many close to the Trump administration that Schmidt
   is angling to create a personal relationship with Trump so as to
   continue the business advantages Google enjoyed when Barack Obama was
   president.
   
   "Google's Eric Schmidt was among Hillary's biggest donors and closest
   advisors," Stone told INFOWARS.com in an exclusive interview. "Schmidt
   enjoyed a revolving-door relationship with the Obama administration
   that secured for Google key role in writing regulations to Google's
   advantage."
   
   Stone pointed out that Schmidt "bet on the wrong horse – big time" in
   supporting Hillary.
   
   "Now, Schmidt is engaged in massive damage control, thinking he charm
   his way into Trump's inner circle," Stone continued.
   
   "The problem is that Schmidt and Google have a history of supporting
   Democratic candidates and leftist causes," he stressed. "The American
   public has no idea how extensively Schmidt has used his influence with
   Hillary and with Obama to wind Google tentacles into the heart and
   inner workings of a federal bureaucracy staffed from the top-down by
   left-leaning Hillary lovers."
   
   Stone emphasized those in key positions in the Trump administration
   must be on the alert to a "Google charm offensive" launched by Schmidt
   to cozy up to Trump in an effort to re-establish with Trump some of the
   influence Google enjoyed with the Democrats.
   
   Google strategy to worm into Trump
   
   "Google was definitely trying to advance its policy agenda by cozying
   up to Trump," Daniel Stevens, the acting executive director of the
   Washington-based non-profit 501(c)(3) watchdog Campaign for
   Accountability told Infowars.  "It's what Google did with Hillary.  As
   Hillary's campaign was kicking-off, Google cozied up to the Clinton
   campaign.  Eric Schmidt sent off emails offering advice to Hillary's
   top campaign managers, in an effort to make himself indispensible to
   the campaign."
   
   
   President Trump while making several phone calls with world leaders from the Oval Office. Mark Wilson/Getty Images
   
   Stevens noted Eric Schmidt even created an under-the-radar startup
   technology company for Hillary's Campaign, The Groundwork,
   headquartered in Brooklyn, N.Y., a few blocks from Hillary's campaign
   office.  The Groundwork became a major vendor Hillary's campaign,
   implementing a policy designed to emulate Barack Obama's highly
   successful micro-targeting of voters in 2012, in a plan to feed this
   data to activists working in the field through the Obama campaign's
   activist arm, Organizing for America.
   
   As noted by Quartz.com in an article published Oct. 9, 2015, Hillary's
   decision to hire former Google executive Stephanie Hannon as her 2016
   presidential campaign's chief technology officer, as well as hiring "a
   host of ex-Googlers" as high-ranking technical staff at the Obama White
   House evidenced the "shrinking distance between Google and the
   Democratic Party."
   
   
   "the digital roots of change"

   "It now appears that Schmidt is trying to reach out to the Trump White
   House in a similar way," Stevens continued.  "It's in Google's interest
   to cozy up to Trump now that he is president and that is what Schmidt
   is trying to do."
   
   That Google has already made inroads into the Trump camp was clear to
   the Campaign for Accountability in that Joshua Wright, who co-wrote a
   Google-funded paper while on the faculty of George Mason University and
   works at Google's main antitrust law firm, has been advising the Trump
   transition team on competition issues, while Alex Pollock, of the
   Google-funded R Street Institute, has also been named to oversee the
   transition at the FTC.
   
   At the same time, it is not clear the Trump administration fully
   appreciates the extent to which Eric Schmidt and Google top executives
   have supported and advanced Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's far-left
   policy agenda.  Leaked emails released by Wikileaks revealed that John
   Podesta, Hillary's 2016 campaign chairman, had warned Neera Tanden, the
   President of the Center for American Progress, "I hope Hillary truly
   understands how batshit crazy David Brock is."
   
   Radical Democratic Party political operative David Brock is the chief
   architect behind promoting the leftist "Fake News" campaign.  Brock's
   advice was key to promoting Google to take steps to prohibit some 340
   "fake news" sites in November and December alone from using Google ads
   for monetization.  Last week Google confirmed that since November, some
   550 sites have been reviewed, resulting in permanent bans for nearly
   200 and temporary bans for another 140, as reported by Variety on Jan.
   25, 2017.
   
   Google refuses to disclose the identity of the websites Google has
   targeted to block as "fake news."
   
   Trump supporters should remain legitimately concerned that by buying
   into Brock's campaign against "fake news," the ultimate goal of the
   far-left is to ban sites like Infowars.com for exposing the far left
   agenda, wile protecting mainstream media news organizations and
   websites like CNN, despite proof CNN has reported anti-Trump stories
   proven to be false or otherwise untruthful.
   
   Trump has repeatedly attacked CNN as "not a legitimate news agency"
   because of the extent to which CNN has engaged in one-sided, distorted
   and intentionally misleading anti-trump "fake news" slanted to benefit
   far-left candidates like Hillary Clinton, while striving to protect the
   legacy of the Obama administration from criticism.
   
   Google's revolving door
   
   "When President Obama announced his support last week for a Federal
   Communications Commission plan to open the market for cable set-top
   boxes — a big win for consumers, but also for Google— the cable and
   telecommunications giants who used to have a near-stranglehold on tech
   policy were furious," wrote David Dayen in the Intercept on April 22,
   2016, evidencing Schmidt's ability to get Obama administration
   regulations written to benefit Google.  "AT&T chief lobbyist Jim
   Cicconi lashed out at what he called White House intervention on behalf
   of 'the Google proposal.'"
   
   According to a report published by Campaign for Accountability on April
   26, 2016, White House logs show Google had "unrivaled access" to the
   Obama administration with Google representatives attending 427 meetings
   in the White House from the time Obama took office, on Jan. 20, 2009,
   and October 2015 – a meeting every 5.8 days – more than once a week –
   averaging one meeting every 4.1 working days.
   
   
   A visitor passes a sign featuring Google Inc.'s logo inside their new U.K. headquarters. Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images
   
   The Campaign for Accountability study further established a "revolving
   door" with Google hiring an Obama administration government official or
   a Google employee becoming an Obama administration employee. "The
   dataset highlights the astonishing level of traffic between the two in
   both directions: 251 people either moved from Google into government or
   vice-versa, since Obama took office," the Center for Accountability
   noted.
   
   "Over the course of just 15 years, Google has grown into arguably the
   most powerful company on the globe by becoming its biggest data-mining
   operation," said Anne Weismann the executive director for the Campaign
   for Accountability Executive when the report on Google was released
   last year. "Google knows more about us than we know about ourselves,
   but we know surprisingly little about Google and how it actually
   operates."
   
   "The company's business practices and political influence, as well as
   how it uses our private information, are disturbingly opaque."
   
   Among those benefiting from Google's "revolving door" relationship with
   the Obama administration is Megan Smith, the former Google vice
   president of business development who served as the United States'
   Chief Technology Officer in the Obama White House.
   
   Another is Johanna Shelton, Google's director of public policy and top
   lobbyist, Johanna Shelton, According to Watchdog.org, Johanna Shelton,
   visited White House officials 128 times, including 4 times with
   President Obama himself, between the time Obama took office in 2009 and
   October 2015, compared to lobbyists for other companies in the
   telecommunications and cable industry that visited the White House a
   combined 124 times in the same time span.  The Daily Mail concluded
   that Shelton visited the Obama White House more than 18 of the top 50
   lobbyist spenders combined.
   
   Eric Schmidt's personal familiarity with Obama stretches back at least
   to Nov. 14, 2007, when then Sen. Barack Obama, a 2008 presidential
   hopeful, visited Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, to
   meet with Schmidt and take questions from Google employees, as part of
   the "Candidates at Google" series.
   
   

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   In his 2008 presentation at Google, Obama expressed his support for net
   neutrality, a Google-sought policy decision that the Federal
   Communications Commission finalized as "Net Neutrality Regulations" on
   April 13, 2015.
   
   On June 23, 2011, ConsumerWatchdog.org wrote the White House legal
   counsel, advising of the group's concern about the Obama
   administration's "inappropriate relationship with Google while the
   company is under criminal investigating," insisting that Schmidt as
   Google's executive chairman, and Marissa Meyer, a Google vice president
   had been invited unadvisedly to be guests at a then recent White House
   state dinner honoring German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
   
   "Allowing such executives to hobnob at a gala White House event
   inevitably sends a message that the Administration supports them and
   undercuts the ability of federal investigators to proceed with their
   case in a fair and unbiased way," ConsumerWatchdog.org president Jamie
   Court wrote in the letter.
   
   In an article published June 24, 2011, Politico documented the precise
   nature of the legal conflicts of interest involved in Schmidt and Meyer
   attending the White House state dinner.
   
   "Google is reportedly the subject of an antitrust investigation by the
   FTC, and Justice is reviewing its $400 million purchase of online
   advertising firm Admeld," Politico noted.  "In addition, Justice, the
   FDA and the Rhode Island U.S. attorney are reportedly looking into
   allegations that Google profited from selling online ads to illegal
   online pharmacies."
   
   Politico stressed that despite these on-going investigations, "Google's
   Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and Vice President Marissa Mayer were
   guests at last month's State Dinner to honor German Chancellor Angela
   Merkel."
   
   All investigations ended without Google facing anti-trust charges or
   criminal prosecutions:

    .  On Dec. 2, 2011, the New York Times reported the Justice Department
       approved Google's $400 million acquisition of Admeld, an online display
       advertising company.
   .  On Jan. 3, 2015, Forbes reported the FTC concluded its investigation of
       the Admeld acquisition, concluding there was no basis for an anti-trust
       case to proceed.
    .  On Aug. 30, 2011, the New York Times reported the Justice Department
       had entered into a non-prosecution agreement with Google that closed a
       FDA investigation into charges Google had received advertising revenue
       through acquired companies, including Admeld, that allowed Canadian
       pharmacies to sell prescription drugs in the United States in violation
       of federal law.
     
   Schmidt's role as Hillary's "head outside advisor"
   
   In an email dated April 2, 2014, released by Wikileaks, Hillary
   Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign chairman John Podesta wrote
   Hillary's campaign manager Robby Mook about a meeting he had just
   completed with Google's Eric Schmidt.
   
   "I met with Eric Schmidt tonight. As David reported, he's ready to
   fund, advise recruit talent, etc. He was more deferential on structure
   than I expected. Wasn't pushing to run through one of his existing
   firms. Clearly wants to be head outside advisor, but didn't seem like
   he wanted to push others out," Podesta wrote. "Clearly wants to get
   going. He's still in DC tomorrow and would like to meet with you if you
   are in DC in the afternoon. I think it's worth doing. You around? If
   you are, and want to meet with him, maybe the four of us can get on the
   phone in the a.m."
   
   In another Wikileaks document, an attachment to a memo Mook wrote to
   Podesta and Clinton aid and legal adviser Cheryl Mills, dated Oct. 26,
   2014, Mook detailed the extensive work "Eric Schmidt's group" was
   undertaking with the campaign.
   
   As noted by the Daily Caller, the attachment was a memo originally sent
   to Hillary by Teddy Goff, the former digital director for President
   Obama's 2012 re-election campaign who had transitioned to Hillary's
   2016 campaign, in October 2014, six months before Hillary announced her
   run to the White House.
   
   In the memo, Goff stressed the importance of Schmidt in constructing
   the back-end infrastructure of the Clinton campaign website.  She wrote
   the following:
   
   "We have selected a team of developers, unaffiliated with Eric
   [Schmidt], to build the front-end of your website — a relatively simple
   process that does not need to have begun yet. These are former
   employees of mine in whom I have the highest confidence. They are
   apprised of what Eric is building but not dependent on it, having
   identified commercially available products for all mission-critical
   functions in the event Eric's group is delayed or otherwise derailed."
   
   Goff continued, noting she had "instructed Eric's team" to build the
   "back-end of the website, the ability to accept donations (along with
   associated features, most importantly the ability to store credit card
   information), and the ability to acquire email addresses."  She noted
   these were "core functionalities" that had contributed to Obama's 2012
   electoral success.  This appears to be the genesis of the thinking that
   led Schmidt to create The Groundwork to create Hillary's 2016 campaign
   technological infrastructure.
   
   According to leaked documents released by Guccifer 2.0, Eric Schmidt,
   valued by Forbes as having a net worth of $11.8 billion, has personally
   donated $118,866.34 to the Clinton Foundation.
   
   There is no doubt that Schmidt used that wealth to bet heavily that
   Hillary Clinton would be president in 2017.  According to
   OpenSecrets.org, Alphabet Inc. employees contributed $1.5 million to
   Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, making Google the second
   largest source of campaign contributions that Clinton received.
   
   The Campaign for Accountability's "Google Transparency Project" found
   "at least 57 people were affiliated with both Clinton—in her
   presidential campaign, in her State Department, at her family
   foundation—and with Google or related entities. In addition, 10 people
   who worked under Clinton at the State Department later joined the New
   America Foundation, a Google-friendly think tank where Google's Eric
   Schmidt served as chairman and was one of its top donors."
   
   The "Google Transparency Project" report made clear Google executives
   and employees "bet heavily on a Clinton victory, hoping to extend the
   company's influence on the Obama White House."  The report continued to
   note that Google executives and employees "lost that bet, and are left
   scrambling to find an entrée into the Trump Administration."
   
   

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