...with #Trump campaign officials again privately coordinating with meme teams, giving them credentials, and making "specific requests for content."

#Wheeler does have documented access to the complete chatroom evidence. It's public record from the #Mackey trial, but the analytical work she did connecting them to #DonJr. and showing the 2016 coordination is in her recent archive.

emptywheel.net/2024/05/23/nata…

The key passage (May 23, @skykiss

Natalie Harp: Gatekeeper to the Reich - emptywheel

Marc Caputo describes the woman who posted the Reich meme to Trump's Truth Social account as his digital gatekeeper.

^emptywheel

#Mackey/#Microchip → #DonJr.'s Team**

The structure was:

👉**#AndrewAuernheimer (#weev)** — described by #Wheeler as **"a key early player in professionalizing that effort"** — trained #DouglassMackey and #Microchip starting in 2015.👈

**Mackey and Microchip** — who had been "groomed" by weev in hashtag hijacking, virality manipulation, and "psychological warfare" techniques — then **coordinated directly with Don Jr.** in a **#Trump HQ Slack** (per her citation of the campaign's own @skykiss