Yep, Manafort's "How do we use to get whole" .. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/emails-suggest-manafort-sought-approval-from-putin-ally-deripaska/541677/ to Kilimnik for Deripaska and others benefit sure suggests Manafort intended to use his position with Trump to fix up his Russian debts. Also Trump and Manafort had been around each other since Around 1980: As the Guardian reported, “There are multiple versions of how Trump and Manafort met.” The most widely reported version is that Cohn introduced Manafort to Trump around the same time he introduced Stone to Trump. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/10/a_timeline_of_paul_manafort_s_relationship_with_the_trump_world.html Crooks of a feather come even closer together some 36 years later. Heh, all thanks to Trump's run. What fun.