Paul Manafort has been back channeling campaign tips through top Trump aides since last year, Republicans tell 24sight News
Sources say Manafort worked through senior campaign advisor Chris #LaCivita and veteran pollster Tony #Fabrizio behind the scenes,
but Trump camp denies direct involvement
Leaders of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence were taken aback by Manafort’s ♦️promotion of Russian interests, ♦️
fingering him as part of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s coordinated effort to influence the Trump campaign and sway the 2016 election.
They spent years investigating how Manafort, working with Russian intelligence officer #Konstantin #Kilimnik and pro-Russian #oligarchs in Ukraine, did #Putin’s bidding.
“The Committee found that Manafort's presence on the Campaign and proximity to Trump created 💥opportunities for Russian intelligence services to exert influence over, and acquire confidential information on the Trump Campaign,” 💥Senate lawmakers wrotein their five-volume report on Russia’s election interference.
“Taken as a whole, Manafort's high-level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services,
particularly #Kilimnik and associates of Oleg #Deripaska,
represented a grave counterintelligence threat.”
The FBI is offering a $250,000 reward for Kilimnik’s capture and has placed him on the Most Wanted list.
But Trump’s allies have broadly disputed Kilimnik’s ties to Russian intelligence.
A few months after negotiating an early release from prison in May 2020, by pleading that he was in danger of contracting Covid-19,
Manafort set up the shell company which would become his ticket to rejoining Trumpworld.
24sight News broke the news about Manafort’s stealth comeback bid, via Winter Solstice Holdings LLC, in March
https://www.24sight.news/p/24sight-exclusive-manafort-trump-back-channel
