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Originally Posted by whell

Oh, I almost forgot: the "Russian asset" that Manafort was accused of working with was actually a key contact for the US State Department going all the way back to 2013. The Mueller report saw fit to overlook that little detail.

In a key finding of the Mueller report, Ukrainian businessman Konstantin Kilimnik, who worked for Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is tied to Russian intelligence.

But hundreds of pages of government documents — which special counsel Robert Mueller possessed since 2018 — describe Kilimnik as a “sensitive” intelligence source for the U.S. State Department who informed on Ukrainian and Russian matters.

Actually, I was referring to Oleg Deripaska to whom Manafort owed $10 million for a previous loan that he tried to pay off with polling information helpful to Russian influence operations. Kilimnik served as an intermediary between Manafort and Deripaska. It also appears that Deripaska may have been the person who recruited Charles McGonigal.