REPORT: Trump’s ‘Deep State’ And ‘Drain The Swamp’ Rallying Cries were invented by Cambridge Analytica, NOT TRUMP.

The London-based data firm Cambridge Analytica was testing out slogans like "Drain the Swamp" and "Build the Wall" as early as 2014, the same year Russia launched its social media influence operation targeting the 2016 US election.

Those slogans would later become the bedrock of Republican nominee Donald Trump's platform while he campaigned for the presidency. He invoked them frequently at his rallies, and his supporters often chanted them.

"We were testing all kinds of messages and all kinds of imagery, which included images of walls, people scaling walls," Christopher Wylie, a former employee at Cambridge Analytica, told CNN. "We tested 'drain the swamp' ... ideas of the deep state and the NSA watching you and the government is conspiring against you."

"And a lot of these narratives, which at the time would have seemed crazy for a mainstream candidate to run on, those were the things that we were finding that there were pockets of Americans who this really appealed to," Wylie added.

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