Posted on 09/20/2017 7:19:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Less than two weeks before Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign chairman offered to provide briefings on the race to a Russian billionaire closely aligned with the Kremlin, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Paul Manafort made the offer in an email to an overseas intermediary, asking that a message be sent to Oleg Deripaska, an aluminum magnate with whom Manafort had done business in the past, these people said.
If he needs private briefings we can accommodate, Manafort wrote in the July 7, 2016, email, portions of which were read to The Washington Post along with other Manafort correspondence from that time.
The emails are among tens of thousands of documents that have been turned over to congressional investigators and special counsel Robert S. Mueller IIIs team as they probe whether Trump associates coordinated with Russia as part of Moscows efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election.
There is no evidence in the documents showing that Deripaska received Manaforts offer or that any briefings took place. And a spokeswoman for Deripaska dismissed the email exchanges as scheming by consultants in the notorious beltway bandit industry.
Nonetheless, investigators believe that the exchanges, which reflect Manaforts willingness to profit from his prominent role alongside Trump, created a potential opening for Russian interests at the highest level of a U.S. presidential campaign, according to people familiar with the probe. Those people, like others interviewed for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss matters under investigation.
Several of the exchanges, which took place between Manafort and a Kiev-based employee of his international political consulting practice, focused on money that Manafort believed he was owed by Eastern European clients.
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Fifth paragraph from four authors. lol...fake news.
Illegal leaks of illegal wiretapping.
“Offered,” not “provided.”
I guess WaPo has to chum the waters.
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