Manafort filing reveals alleged campaign communications with Russian operative

CBS News ^ | January 8, 2019 | Grace Segers

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Attorneys for Paul Manafort, former Trump campaign chairman, submitted a poorly redacted filing on Tuesday revealing that Manafort shared polling data with a Russian operative during the campaign. Special counsel Robert Mueller submitted a filing in November accusing Manafort of breaching his plea agreement with the special counsel's office by lying to federal investigators.

The special counsel said in a memo describing Manafort's alleged wrongdoing in December that Manafort's lies to federal investigators were not simply "memory lapses."

According to that memo, Manafort lied about several things in breach of his plea deal, including his contact with Konstantin Kilimnik, who ran Manafort's office in Kiev. Kilimnik, who has ties to Russian intelligence, was indicted in June. Much of the information about Kilimnik was redacted in the filing, although Manafort admitted he conspired with Kilimnik to obstruct justice.

[be-baw]

Yah I think you nailed it, kabar.

[sphinx]

So: the CBS headline shouts out that Manafort shared information with a Russian operative. If you read down to the third paragraph, you will find that said Russian, Konstantin Kilimnik, was an employee of Manafort. He ran Manafort's Kiev office. Manafort shared information with his own staff.

What he is accused of, of course, is not talking to his own staff, which is legal, or sharing polling data, which is also legal. He is accused of lying to Mueller's investigators about the conversation. Manafort says his memory was faulty. Mueller is saying he was deliberately lying … about the commission of a legal act.

[EDINVA]

I will never understand what happened when Jeff Sessions recused himself or what happened when he was AG ... doesn’t follow his Senatorial career at all.

[Revolutionary]

Another nothing burger. Gave his employee in Russia polling data. And we all know how good polling data was.