The Senate Intelligence Committee’s report into Russian interference in the ‘16 presidential election finds that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s contacts w/ Kremlin-linked officials posed a “grave counterintelligence threat.”
Per @karoun: washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Per @karoun: washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
The report states that Manafort worked with a Russian intelligence officer “on narratives that sought to undermine evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election,” including the idea that Ukrainian election interference was of greater concern.
The report also found that some of the campaign’s other Russian contacts had closer ties to Moscow’s government and intelligence services than previously reported.
Natalia Veselnitskaya, who met with Manafort, Donald Trump Jr., and Jared Kushner at Trump Tower in 2016, had “significant connections” to the Kremlin. The information she offered to them was “part of a broader influence operation targeting the United States,” the report states.
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