The Big Boom, Folks - By Josh Marshall
By Josh Marshall
January 8, 2019 9:58 pm
Theres your collusion. Manafort had Kilimnik pass the polling data to Oleg Deripaska.
From the
Times
Mr. Manafort asked Mr. Gates to tell Mr. Kilimnik to pass the data to Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch who is close to the Kremlin and who has claimed that Mr. Manafort owed him money from a failed business venture, the person said. It is unclear whether Mr. Manafort was acting at the campaigns behest or independently, trying to gain favor with someone to whom he was deeply in debt.
Id spent a bit of time putting together a piece explaining what we already knew about Manaforts efforts to use the campaign to get right with Deripaska. (Thats an hour I wont get back.) We already knew that in July 2016 hed had Kilimnik offer Deripaska private briefings on the state of the campaign. So it was not much of a stretch to think that hed given Kilimnik the polling data for the same reason. But it appears we dont have to speculate. He passed it on with those specific instructions.
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