If Donald Trump wins in November, he may owe his victory to a software development team in Ukraine — a country he’s signaled he’ll abandon in its struggle against Russia.
In Wisconsin and Arizona, Republicans are counting on getting voters to the polls with an app that MAGA activist group Turning Point USA has deployed in both of the swing states, as the Associated Press recently reported.
The articles noted close ties between the leadership at Turning Point — co-founded by GOP convention speaker Charlie Kirk — and app developer Superfeed. The AP also noted the skepticism among veteran Republican operatives about the app’s strategy of targeting those who are least likely to vote.
But what hasn’t been reported is that Superfeed’s product was made in the very country that Kirk blasted as “profoundly corrupt” in his denunciations of U.S. assistance.
“Superfeed Technology reached out to us to gather a team of software developers to build an online platform from scratch,” reads nCube’s website, a self-described “offshore software development” firm and “reputable company on the Ukrainian market.”
nCube’s page identifies Superfeed’s original CEO, David Torres, as its point of contact with the company.
On LinkedIn, Torres left positive reviews of two Ukrainian software professionals whom he described as the “lead mobile App developer” and “lead Azure Platform developer” for Superfeed, which was formerly called FeedMe. Another LinkedIn user, who identified herself as the former product manager for Superfeed, praised another Kyiv-based nCube employee as “part of our front end dev[elopment] team.”
Of the six people presently listed as Superfeed employees on LinkedIn, three are based in Ukraine, with the titles “QA Engineer,” “Mobile | Web developer” and “Mobile/Web Developer | Team Lead.”
Efforts to reach Torres, the Ukrainian programmers and the former Superfeed product manager via LinkedIn and email were unsuccessful.
nCube’s web page indicates its relationship with Superfeed dates back to 2018 and continues to today.
NOTUS found posts on a Ukrainian job board from 2021from NCUBE seeking developers interested in working on a “revolutionary new superfeed app” on behalf of a U.S. company.
Another ad on the board, from March of this year, sought an engineer to assist in “the development and improvement of an existing app that enables users to control and sort out the news, information, and social media content.” Superfeed is the only client listed on nCube’s website that fits that description.
nCube, which is also incorporated in the United Kingdom and claims additional teams in Poland and Brazil, did not respond to questions from NOTUS. Superfeed executives and a Turning Point USA spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment.
Besides Turning Point USA, Superfeed has supplied a platform to Republican operations in Michigan, Nevada, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Yakima County, Washington. The company has also received $110,000 for “PAC digital consulting” from the pro-Trump Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund this cycle, Federal Election Commission records show.
Meanwhile, Trump has slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a “salesman” who “refused to make a deal” with the Kremlin — even though Russia’s demands include ceding Ukrainian territory and the permanent subversion of Kyiv’s sovereignty.
Kirk, for his part, has applauded Trump for pointedly refusing to say during the debate against Vice President Kamala Harris whether he wanted to see Ukraine triumph against Moscow’s unprovoked attack.
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William Bredderman is a freelance reporter.