8/31/2017:
Sources tell NBC's Ken Dilanian that Manafort's typed notes from the Trump Tower meeting "contained the words 'donations' and 'RNC' in close proximity"
5/16/2018:
The notes, in fact, did not include the word "donations"
businessinsider.com/paul-manafort-…
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/m…
Sources tell NBC's Ken Dilanian that Manafort's typed notes from the Trump Tower meeting "contained the words 'donations' and 'RNC' in close proximity"
5/16/2018:
The notes, in fact, did not include the word "donations"
businessinsider.com/paul-manafort-…
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/m…
These weren't handwritten.
These were typed notes.
How did multiple sources hallucinate the same non-existent word to the same reporter.
These were typed notes.
How did multiple sources hallucinate the same non-existent word to the same reporter.
Without any evidence, this reporter from Open Secrets the next day blindly presumed that the mystery RNC donor described in Manafort's notes must've been none other than Russian-American, Simon Kukes.
opensecrets.org/news/2017/09/r…
opensecrets.org/news/2017/09/r…
(Kukes is described in Kavalec's October 2016 notes as a big donor to the RNC, and also is likely one of the three so-called "Kremlin intermediaries" that Simpson described to Ohr back in late August 2016.)
you can actually pinpoint the window in which the story was edited:
6:10pm - 6:52pm EST
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6:10pm - 6:52pm EST
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