Tag: Konstantin Kilimnik

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Washington (CNN)Lawyers working for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort accidentally revealed on Tuesday the clearest public evidence of coordination between the campaign and Russians, adding new details to the murky mosaic of potential collusion in 2016 -- including sharing polling data with an alleged Russian operative. Many of their contacts happened while the Russian government was aggressively meddling in the US election. At the time, Manafort told CNN in a statement, "that is 100% not true, at least as far as me." For the first time, the public learned that Manafort shared "polling data" about the 2016 campaign with his Russian friend. There aren't any additional details -- all this tells us is that Mueller believes that Manafort fed polling data to Kilimnik, possibly even polls commissioned by the Trump campaign. Polling data is a key part of any modern political operation -- presidential campaigns and outside groups like super PACs spend millions of dollars on polls. "After being shown documents, Mr. Manafort 'conceded' that he discussed or may have discussed a Ukraine peace plan with Mr. Kilimnik on more than one occasion," the filing said. The news that Manafort was in talks with Kilimnik about a "Ukraine peace plan" is interesting, because it's not the first time the Ukraine conflict became an issue inside Trump's orbit. At the time, Manafort denied that the Trump campaign was involved. There aren't any publicly known ties between Artemenko and Kilimnik, though Kilimnik is an insider in Ukrainian political circles and has relationships with many lawmakers there.

-Written by Elaine Godfrey (@elainejgodfrey) Today in 5 Lines As President Trump prepared to leave for the annual G7 summit in Canada, he said that Russia should be readmitted to the group. Russia was suspended from the group, then known as the G8, after its invasion and annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region in 2014. Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed obstruction-of-justice charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Manafort’s associate Konstantin Kilimnik for allegedly trying to tamper with witnesses. In a letter to the FBI and Justice Department, House Democrats requested an investigation into Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt. Trump told reporters that he likely will support a congressional effort to end the federal ban on marijuana, a move Attorney General Jeff Sessions has spoken out against. In a closed-door meeting, House Republicans considered an outline of a potential immigration compromise that would offer a path to citizenship for young undocumented immigrants and provide funding for Trump’s proposed border wall. Today on The Atlantic Weaponizing a Document: A century ago, birth certificates were used to reinforce racial segregation in America. Now, they’re being used against transgender Americans. (Garrett Epps) No More Long Handshakes? (Ed Kilgore, New York) The Left’s Donald Trump: New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon is making the most of her celebrity—and, like Trump, her supporters see in her whatever kind of champion they want.

Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the US election, wants to ask Donald Trump about contact between his former election campaign manager Paul Manafort and Russia, the New York Times reported on Monday. Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution thinktank in Washington, tweeted: “This is very interesting – strong evidence that there are still collusion threads that are not yet public.” Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates, pleaded not guilty last October to a 12-count indictment accusing them of conspiring to defraud the US by laundering $30m from their work for a Russia-friendly political party in Ukraine. He helped Yanukovych win the country’s 2010 presidential vote and approved a secret media operation to discredit Yanukovych’s rival Yulia Tymoshenko. Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating alleged Trump-Russia collusion, has indicted Manafort on multiple counts. It is not yet known whether the president will agree to be interviewed. Russian banks have bailed out failing Trump projects and financed other projects. Trump tweeted after he was elected, “Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. "We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia” to the Trump Organization, Donald Trump Jr told a real estate conference in 2008. In 2010, a Russian-Canadian developer used funds from a Russian state-run bank to save a Trump hotel and tower project in Toronto. James Comey dismisses House Russia report as 'political document' Read more Mueller also wants to ask: “What did you know about communication between Roger Stone, his associates, Julian Assange or WikiLeaks?” And: “What did you know during the transition about an attempt to establish back-channel communication to Russia, and Jared Kushner’s efforts?” Most questions relate to obstruction of justice before and during Trump’s presidency, diving into Trump’s litany of contradictory statements and tweets.