{"id":22254,"date":"2018-11-18T07:22:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T07:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22254"},"modified":"2018-11-18T07:22:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T07:22:20","slug":"bannon-banks-emails-show-brexit-campaigners-sought-us-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22254","title":{"rendered":"Bannon-Banks emails show Brexit campaigners sought US funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Arron Banks, the backer of the biggest campaign behind Brexit, asked Cambridge Analytica to draw up plans for raising funds from the United States, according to a trove of leaked emails.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Correspondence obtained by CNN, and first reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/uk\/brexitinc\/peter-geoghegan\/brexit-bankroller-arron-banks-cambridge-analytica-and-steve-bannon-expl\" target=\"_blank\">Open Democracy<\/a>, shows Banks in contact with Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix since in October 2015 after being introduced by US President Donald Trump&#8217;s former strategist Steve Bannon.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In an email to his associate, Andy Wigmore, Banks said he would like Cambridge Analytica to &#8220;come up with a strategy for fund raising in the States and engaging companies and special interest groups that might be affected by TTIP,&#8221; a transatlantic trade deal between the US and EU, to which Bannon was hostile. It was subsequently scrapped by Trump.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Arron Banks, the backer of the biggest campaign behind Brexit, asked Cambridge Analytica to draw up plans for raising funds from the United States, according to a trove of leaked emails.Correspondence obtained by CNN, and first reported by Open Democracy, shows Banks in contact with Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix since in October 2015 after&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}