Manafort Admits Sharing Trump Intel With Russian

The Insider reports:

In an interview with Insider, Paul Manafort, who served as Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, made his first public admission that in 2016 he shared polling data from the Trump campaign with Konstantin Kilimnik, a longtime business associate with suspected ties to Russian intelligence. Kilimnik then passed the data on to Russian spies, according to the US Treasury Department, which has characterized the data as “sensitive information on polling and campaign strategy.”

Manafort’s acknowledgment contradicts his earlier denials, during the investigation into election interference conducted by the special counsel Robert Mueller, that he had anything to do with the transfer of sensitive campaign data. It also differs from the account he gives in his forthcoming memoir, “Political Prisoner,” in which he concedes only that he presented Kilimnik with “talking points” on polling data that was already public.

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BREAKING: Paul Manafort, who served as Trump’s campaign chair, admits that in 2016 he shared Trump campaign polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, a business associate with ties to Russian intelligence. Kilmnick then passed the info along to Russian spies. https://t.co/1fOgt4p6td

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