Even as Trump was campaigned in '16 to 'drain the swamp,' he chose as campaign mgr Paul Manafort, who'd made millions as a global swamp creature for pro-Russia oligarchs, doing the work of Putin.
Details are in the Senate Intel Committee's newest report:
intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/…
"ProRussian Ukrainian oligarchs with deep economic ties to Russia also paid Manafort tens of
millions of dollars and formed strong ties with Manafort...
Manafort hired and worked increasingly closely with a Russian national, Konstantin
Kilimnik...a Russian intelligence officer."
Kilimnik, the Russian intel agent, & Manafort "formed a close and
lasting relationship that endured to the 2016 US elections & beyond...throughout his
time on the [Trump] Campaign, Manafort directly & indirectly communicated with Kilimnik, Deripaska,
& the pro-Russian oligarchs..
The bipartisan Senate Intel Committee said it "was unable to reliably determine why Manafort shared sensitive internal polling data or [Trump] Campaign strategy with Kilimnik or with whom Kilimnik further shared that information."
Who would a pro-Putin intel officer share with?
Speaking of the GRU, successor to the Soviets' KGB, the Senate report said: "The Committee obtained some information suggesting Kilimnik may have been connected to the GRU's hack and leak operation targeting the 2016 U.S. election."
That's no hoax.
And the money quote:
"...Manafort's high level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the
Russian intelligence services, particularly Kilimnik and associates of Oleg Deripaska,
represented a grave counterintelligence threat" to the US
No hoax: "The Committee found that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian
effort to hack computer networks & accounts affiliated with the Democratic Party and leak
information damaging to Hillary Clinton and her campaign for president...[&] help the
Trump Campaign"
As Trump campaigned ("Drain the swamp") fixer Michael Cohen updated him on negotiations in Russia for a Trump Tower. "Trump made positive public comments about Putin in connection with his
presidential campaign" & Cohen & another aide tried "to leverage" those to seal the deal.
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