Manafort Owns Up to Passing Campaign Data to Suspected Russian Agent

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-campaign-chief-paul-manafort-owns-up-to-passing-sensitive-data-to-suspected-russian-agent?ref=home

Manafort Owns Up to Passing Campaign Data to Suspected Russian Agent
INSIDE JOB
Dan Ladden-Hall
News Correspondent
Published Aug. 08, 2022 10:00AM ET

Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Monday publicly admitted that he gave polling data to Konstantin Kilimnik, a suspected Russian intelligence asset. The U.S. Treasury Department says the data—which it described as “sensitive information on polling and campaign strategy”—was then passed to Russian intelligence services. Manafort, who is a longtime associate of Kilimnik, has previously denied passing his pal the data during the Mueller investigation into election interference. Even his forthcoming memoir, Political Prisoner, claims only that Manafort presented Kilimnik with “talking points” on publicly available polling data. “The data that I shared with him was a combination of public information and stuff for the spring that was—it was old,” Manafort told Business Insider. Mueller’s investigation previously showed, however, that Manafort ordered his deputy Rick Gates to prepare information for the meeting with Kilimnik which had been collected just two weeks prior. The internal polling data related to Trump’s popularity in 18 swing states. “It was meant to show how Clinton was vulnerable,” Manafort added.

[Walleye]

1. It was meant to give Russian intelligence information they needed to beat Hillary, install trump

It’s just that fucking simple

[Irish_Dem]

2. How is this not a national security issue?

American citizens passing inside election info to Russian agents for the purpose of destroying the democratic process and installing a Putin puppet into the WH.

How many other puppets were installed at high levels of US government?

The GOP elite get a pass.

[gratuitous]

3. Gee, that sounds kind of serious

I wonder if any news outlets will take notice of this curious development? Or will they just overlook Manafort's pardon, zero in on the title of his memoir that he was a political prisoner, and continue to ignore things like the former guy's "Russia, if you're listening" shout out to Putin?