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Theres LOTS of Mueller clues dropping, specifically a lot of info about Manafort & Kilimnik which Mueller refers to as "to the heart of what the special counsel’s office is investigating”

It feels like we got some pieces of the puzzle so lets try & piece it together

THREAD👇
First of all I'll build on a previous thread I did which I'll attach at the end but heres the gist of it...
Theres a 2006 photo showing Manafort & Kilimnik at a conference table with a very interesting bunch. I question whether this was the start of a Russian "working group"?
Kilimnik was a Russian army veteran who trained at a military language academy known as a feeder school for the intelligence services, Kilimnik worked for Manafort since 2005, when he began serving as a translator for Manafort’s Ukraine operation
Which brings us to the 2006 photo
Would this "working group" eventually evolve into a team working on behalf of Russia to interfere w/ our elections & place the candidate of Russias choosing (i.e. Trump) as POTUS?

Now fast forward to what we recently learned from Mueller about a suspicious cigar bar meeting...
On August 2nd these three men met at a Cigar Bar
👉Manafort
👉Kilimnik (who's already indicted by Mueller)
👉Rick Gates (who's cooperating w/ Mueller)

The Cigar Bar was in 666 5th Ave
Isn't it funny how Jared Kushner's building always crops up🤔

A few days before the meeting...
Before the meeting Kilimnik met in Moscow w/ Oleg Deripaska. Oleg is a central figure & as a powerful oligarch & close ally of Putins he may be the path from Trump to Putin

Soon after their meeting Kilimnik emailed Manafort that he needed to brief him on his Deripaska meeting...
he said he just spent 5 hours w/ the man “who gave you your biggest jar of black caviar several years ago”
btw, speaking in code is not in the playbook of the innocent

Kilimnik emailed Manafort saying Deripaska asked him to convey “several important messages from him to you”
A retired CIA chief of Russia operations says
“Deripaska would get his marching orders from the Kremlin about what Russia wanted...”
“It seems likely the chain of communication would have been Putin to Deripaska to Kilimnik to Manafort”
"It’s essentially a Trump-Putin connection”
Even though it was a critical time during the campaign Manafort replied “Tuesday would be best,”
That Tuesday Aug 2nd, Manafort, Gates & Kilimnik all met at the Cigar Bar

In another highly suspicious move they all deliberately left the building alone, through separate entrances
Flight records show Deripaskas private plane landed at Newark Airport after midnight on Aug 3 just hrs after Kilimnik & Manafort met. The plane was on the ground a few hrs before returning to Moscow.
Did Oleg have a meeting on the runway or did Kilimnik get a ride back to Moscow?
Whether they were part of a "working group" it seems like Manafort & Kilimnik were working together & may have been a back channel between Trump & Putin. Some people suggest the meeting was to discuss lifting sanctions & election interference. But I think it was A LOT more...
Could Manafort & Kilimnik have been key players in a Russian plot to take over our Govt? Creating maximum chaos to weaken the US while strengthening Russia? Trump was planted as POTUS & Manafort headed the team implementing it for Russia?

And of course shitloads of💰was involved
One theory to consider is that the Aug 2nd meeting coincides w/ the timing of when the FBI was getting close
The FBI officially briefed Trumps team on August 17th that Russia was interfering w/ their campaign
On August 19th Manafort quit
Was Manafort preparing for this situation?
If they were preparing for Manafort to have to leave Trumps campaign they may have had to create a new back channel?
Roger Stone had probably been involved for a while but if Manafort had to quit maybe Stone became part of the chain & relayed Manafort's messages to Trump?
Hopefully we'll get answers soon...
This is so big that even if Mueller's finishing up, it'll probably trigger numerous other investigations
But maybe Mueller will make enough evident that Congress, Senate &/or the DOJ will finally put a stop to the plot & get our Government back
Heres a prior thread I did based on the 2006 photo which showed both Manafort & Kilimnik during their early working relationship along with a bevy of other interesting players that may add to the bigger picture
Was this the start of Russias "long game"👇

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