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Five days after you begged Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's email, Manafort & Gates, your campaign chairman & deputy campaign chair, had a covert meeting with Russian intelligence operative Kilimnik and passed him your internal polling data –> "COLLUSION."
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"Prosecutors almost never have direct evidence of criminal conspiracies. Usually what you have is a series of events to point to from which you can draw inferences. That's circumstantial evidence and just as valuable in our judicial system." —@Mimirocah1
Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort conspired with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska during the 2016 campaign with help from Russian military intelligence operative [GRU] Konstantin Kilimnik – whose ties to the GRU were still active in 2016.
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JUL 7, 2016: Manafort offers Deripaska private campaign briefings.
JUL 27: At a PA campaign rally, Trump proclaims, “Wouldn’t it be great if we could get along with Russia?”
JUL 29: Manafort's GRU operative Kilimnik meets with Deripaska in Moscow.
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JUL 27: At a PA campaign rally, Trump proclaims, “Wouldn’t it be great if we could get along with Russia?”
JUL 29: Manafort's GRU operative Kilimnik meets with Deripaska in Moscow.
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AUG 2, 2016: Days after meeting in Moscow with Deripaska, Russian intelligence-linked Kilimnik flies to NY on Deripaska's jet to meet Trump campaign chair Manafort and share Deripaska's "messages" re Manafort's offer of private campaign briefings.
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SEP 2016: Weeks after Russian operative Kilimnik flew to NY on Oleg Deripaska's jet to meet Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, Deripaska secretly met with Russia's deputy PM Sergei Prikhodko & briefed him on how to "solve the issue with America."
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SEP 2016: FBI agents made a surprise visit to the NY home of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and questioned him about whether his former business partner, Paul Manafort, had served as a link to the Kremlin during his time as Trump’s campaign chair.
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ICYMI: In AUG 2016, following his ouster from Trump's campaign, Manafort sailed around Greece with Tom Barrack [and likely Kilimnik]. After the trip, Barrack hired Manafort & Kilimnik associate Rick Gates as Trump Inaugural Committee deputy chair.
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