The now-suspended CEO of data firm Cambridge Analytics appeared to mock Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee for giving him softball questions during his 2017 testimony.
“After five minutes – done,” Alexander Nix said in a video published by Channel 4, a British broadcaster. “They’re politicians, they’re not technical. They don’t understand how it works.”
The House Intelligence Committee spoke with Nix last year by video conference amid its probe into Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election. The video was taken sometime between November and January, after his testimony.
A whistleblower, Christopher Wylie, has since revealed how Cambridge Analytica mined information of 50 million users from Facebook during the 2016 election cycle.
A lawyer for Wylie told the Washington Post Tuesday that he plans to accept an invitation from the committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., to interview with the committee.
Schiff said Monday he is inviting Wylie because he now has “serious questions about the veracity of the testimony” Nix gave to the House Intelligence Committee.
However, the Republican majority on the committee announced last week it was winding down its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Also in the Tuesday video released Channel 4, Nix bragged that his company’s work allowed Trump to win the election with a narrow margin of “40,000 votes” in three swing states.
“We did all the research, all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting, we ran all the digital campaign, the television campaign and our data informed all the strategy,” Nix said.
On Monday, Channel 4 released a video showing Nix discussing how his company used compromising situations to entrap politicians.
Nix was suspended Tuesday barring an investigation.
