
Сайт
http://putintrump.org/ был запущен 21 сентября 2016 на специальной церемонии в Нью-Йорке. Сайт был доступен накануне, но только по паролю, которым поделились с журналистами. Пароль был не слишком сложным - "putintrump". Его удалось раздобыть нацистскому троллю
Чаку Джонсону, а потом и Джулиану Ассанжу.
Charles Johnson, who calls himself an independent journalist and runs a site called GotNews, published an article around 9:30 p.m. ET on September 20, 2016, claiming he had "obtained a memo from a George Soros-tied PR firm that is launching a website to spread conspiracy theories about Donald Trump’s connections to Russia." Soros is the investor and business magnate who has become a favorite bogeyman of the far right.
"The site, PutinTrump.org, is set to be launched tomorrow morning on Wednesday, September 21, by public relations firm Ripple Strategies," Johnson wrote.
Johnson updated his article again to include the password for PutinTrump.org, which was still locked at that point. He said he had obtained it from a "GotNews researcher."http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-donald-trump-jr-charles-johnson-2017-11Ассанж решает послать пароль Дональду Трампу-младшему, чтобы тот пригляделся к создателям сайта.
“A PAC run anti-Trump site putintrump.org is about to launch,” WikiLeaks wrote. “The PAC is a recycled pro-Iraq war PAC. We have guessed the password. It is ‘putintrump.’ See ‘About’ for who is behind it. Any comments?” The next morning, about 12 hours later, Trump Jr. responded to WikiLeaks. “Off the record I don’t know who that is, but I’ll ask around,” he wrote on September 21, 2016. “Thanks.”https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-secret-correspondence-between-donald-trump-jr-and-wikileaks/545738/Не дожидаясь ответа, он публикует пароль в твите.
С именем PAC вышла промашка. Он назывался "Progress for USA" и не имел никакого отношения к стаому "Progress for America". Спонсором сайта putintrump.org был миллардер прогрессивных взглядов Роб Глейсер, а главным редактором - Билл Буценберг.
О целях сайта Глейсер рассказал в интервью Дэвиду Фруму.
Glaser: We have three big goals for PutinTrump.org.
The first is to be the world’s definitive place to find rigorous reporting, lucid analysis, and thoughtful opinions on the dangerous and unprecedented connections between the head of Russia and a major-party presidential nominee.
The second is to raise the awareness of this massive problem to make it one of the defining issues of the 2016 presidential campaign.
The third is that by raising the issue in a thoughtful and rigorous way, and by raising the profile of the issues surrounding the Trump-Putin nexus, we want to persuade as many people as possible—including many who might otherwise seriously consider voting for him—that Donald Trump’s deep ties with and affinity for Vladimir Putin disqualify Trump from being President of the United States.https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/trump-and-putins-relationship/500852/( Read more... )