Mueller believes Manafort fed information to Russian with intel ties

Source: CNN

CNN Digital Expansion 2018 Katelyn Polantz

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN

Updated 4:13 PM ET, Tue January 8, 2019


Washington (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller believes that Paul Manafort was sharing polling data and discussing Russian-Ukrainian policy with his close Russian-intelligence-linked associate, Konstantin Kilimnik, while he led the Trump presidential campaign, according to parts of a court filing that were meant to be redacted by Manafort's legal team Tuesday but were released publicly.


Manafort discussed a Ukrainian peace plan with Kilimnik, his lawyers acknowledged. He also shared polling data related to the 2016 presidential campaign with Kilimnik, Manafort's legal team acknowledges in their court filing.


The details accidentally released Tuesday are the closest public assertion yet in the Mueller cases of coordination between a Trump campaign official and the Russian government, as Kilimnik is believed to be linked to Russian military intelligence. It's a major acknowledgment from the Mueller team that their investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election is finding potential contact between at least one Trump campaign official and the Kremlin.


The Ukraine peace plan that they discussed likely would have dealt with Russian intervention in the region. At around the same time, Russian government operatives were allegedly hacking Democratic computers to help Trump and orchestrating a social media propaganda scheme to sway voters against Trump's electoral opponents.................

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/08/politics/manafort-russia-court-deadline/index.html

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Manafort Shared Trump Campaign Data With Russian Tied to Intelligence Services, Prosecutors Say
The revelation was inadvertently revealed in a court filing by Paul Manafort’s lawyers that contained a formatting error.
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Jan 08, 2019

🚨 NEW: Paul Manafort's attorneys failed to properly redact their filing. They reveal that Mueller alleges Manafort "lied about sharing polling data with Mr. Kilimnik related to the 2016 presidential campaign". Konstantin Kilimnik has alleged ties to Russian intelligence. 🚨
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Natasha Bertrand
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4h4 hours ago

Things we learned today from Manafort's lawyers' redaction errors: Manafort is alleged to have met in Madrid w/Kilimnik; shared polling data with him; and discussed a Ukraine peace plan w/him more than once. Is that the same peace plan that Cohen delivered to Flynn in Jan 2017?
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Matthew Miller Verified account @matthewamiller
4h4 hours ago

Matthew Miller Retweeted southpaw

These failed redactions show Manafort had a meeting with Kilimnik in Madrid, gave him campaign polling data, and discussed a Ukrainian peace plan with him - then lied about all of it. Very normal contacts between a US presidential campaign manager & a Russian intelligence asset.

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southpaw
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You can copy the black highlighted “redactions” in the Manafort team’s filing, paste it somewhere else, and see what it says. Here’s the first one. https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5677512/Manafort-20190108-Dc.pdf …
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Ted Lieu
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3h3 hours ago

Ted Lieu Retweeted Natasha Bertrand

Manafort may want to fire his lawyers.

Also, um, this is collusion or attempted collusion by the campaign manager of the @realDonaldTrump campaign right?

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