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Aaron Maté
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1/ A lot of excitement today that Mueller alleges Manafort lied about sharing polling data w/ his fixer in Ukraine, Konstantin Kilimnik (hereafter KK), a Russian national. A few thoughts:
2/ According to MSNBC analyst & Russiagate devotee Clint Watts: “This is the closest thing we have seen to collusion.” Wow, this must be big then! nyti.ms/2H0YLzj?smid=n…
3/ Wait, here’s one prob. Per NYT, “most of the data” — polling data that Manafort shares w/ his Russian associate — “was public.” And the rest was still just - polling data. And it was shared in the spring of 2016 — the earliest possible stages of Trump vs. Clinton campaign. 😱
4/ Mueller has vaguely & meekly claimed KK has “ties to Russian intelligence.” No further details. Per The Atlantic, “insinuations” that Kilimnik worked for Russian intelligence “were never backed by more than a smattering of circumstantial evidence.”

thenation.com/article/muelle…
5/ I gotta log off for tonite, to be continued tomorrow
6/ This thread fell off, but here's my new piece laying out my thoughts on this Manafort story: thenation.com/article/manafo…
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Aaron Maté
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Russiagate crowd will spin this inquiry as damning for Trump, even though there was no evidence to justify it & none to emerge since. If it deepens partisan warfare between conspiracy-claiming liberals/intel officials & a “Witch Hunt!”-claiming Trump, then the rest of us suffer.
Revealing passage. Trump "caught the attention of FBI" for:
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This suggests that FBI was relying heavily on public developments, not secret evidence. And it was blatantly misinterpreting what those public developments signified.
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Aaron Maté
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As of 9:18 am EST, @jonathanchait & @NYMAG still haven’t corrected Chait’s blatantly wrong correction about NYT’s correction. Chait says it’s now “different Russian oligarchs” when he even includes a tweet from NYT’s Ken Vogel who makes clear it’s in fact “Ukrainian oligarchs.”
@jonathanchait & @NYMAG , there's no room for error here. Chait says "different Russian oligarchs" when the NYT correction, as the NYT story & Vogel tweet that Chait even includes says, "Ukrainian oligarchs."
Dear @jonathanchait: do you plan to correct your false claim about the NYT's correction? You said NYT reported it as "different Russian oligarchs", when in fact the Vogel tweet you include in your own article, & the NYT correction itself, stresses that it's "Ukrainian oligarchs."
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Aaron Maté
@aaronjmate
My new piece on what the recent Senate studies about Russian social media posts actually show: a juvenile, microscopic operation massively over-hyped by political elites, pundits, & "experts" with sketchy agendas & contemptuous views of average voters:
thenation.com/article/russia…
Some points to stress: 1) it's tough to suggest that Russian clickbait helped decide the 2016 election when even the Senate authors acknowledge that just "11% of the total content" from Russian trolls "was related to the election", & their posts "minimally about the candidates."
2) the widespread claim that Russian trolls reached 126M on Facebook is in fact a spin on Facebook's own "estimate":
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"the Government’s allegation that Mr. Manafort lied about sharing polling data with Mr. Kilimnik related to the 2016 presidential campaign."
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