Tornado Alley (PROG)

[fuagf]

Tearex, Trump campaign chief Manafort’s associate Kilimnik gave Russia 2016 election strategy, polling, U.S. says

Published Thu, Apr 15 202112:40 PM EDTUpdated Thu, Apr 15 20215:23 PM EDT

Dan Mangan @_DanMangan

Key Points

* A longtime associate of former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign chief Paul Manafort gave Russian intelligence agencies “sensitive information on polling and campaign strategy” during the election that year, the U.S. Treasury Department said.

* Manafort’s associate, Konstantin Kilimnik, “also sought to promote the narrative that Ukraine, not Russia, had interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election,” the department said Thursday as the Biden administration announced new sanctions on Russia, Kilimnik and others.

* Those sanctions relate in part to Russia’s alleged effort to affect the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

[...]

Trump in 2019 denied knowing anything about Manafort giving Kilimnik polling data .. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/10/trump-i-knew-nothing-about-manafort-sharing-poll-data-with-alleged-russian-spy.html .

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/15/trump-campaign-chief-paul-manafort-employee-kilimnik-gave-russia-election-data.html