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I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy's office - that there's no way he gets elected - but I'm afraid we can't take that risk. It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40.Although the Wall Street Journal reported that the 'insurance policy' was related to the Russia collusion farce, others hint that it may be more sinister than even that. The Russia farce was beyond imagination but some believe that it may not be the 'insurance policy'.
IBTimes.com, the publisher's US business site, last year won a significant portion of a large video and display advertising campaign for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal agency. Social Puncher, a consulting firm that investigates online ad fraud, alleges in its report that the ads were displayed to an audience on IBTimes.com that includes a significant amount of "cheap junk traffic with a share of bots."
The CFPB's ad budget was the subject of criticism from Republican lawmakers after the Daily Caller reported last year that it had awarded more than $40 million in contracts to a single ad agency, GMMB, which is one of the top Democratic media strategists. (A portion of money in those contracts was used to pay media outlets for advertising space, and was not kept by GMMB.)
The CFPB was created in 2011 as a result of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. President Trump recently tweeted that the bureau "has been a total disaster," and installed his budget director, Mick Mulvaney, as its new director.
Neither the CFPB or GMMB are accused of taking part in, or having knowledge of, ad fraud on IBTimes.com.
Comment: Assuming terrorism was indeed the topic, they likely discussed Syria and the possibility of US agents and troops getting caught up in Turkey's sweep across northern Syria.