Polling data could conceivably have helped Russia hone those messages and target audiences to help swing votes to Mr. Trump.
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“The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father.
Throughout the federal investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, court filings and news organizations revealed numerous instances of campaign contacts with Russians that were not publicly known until after the election.
Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. Konstantin V. Kilimnik ( Russian: Константин Килимник; Ukrainian: Костянтин Килимник; born 27 April 1970) is a Russian/Ukrainian political consultant. In the United States, he became a person of interest in multiple investigations regarding Russian interference in ...
Some reports say Kilimnik ran the Kyiv office of Manafort's firm, Davis Manafort International, and was Manafort's right-hand man in Kyiv. They began working for Viktor Yanukovych after the 2004 Orange Revolution cost him the Presidency. With help from Manafort and Kilimnik, Yanukovych became President in 2010.
Most of the polling data was reportedly public, although some was private Trump campaign polling data. Manafort asked Kilimnik to pass the data to Ukrainians Serhiy Lyovochkin and Rinat Akhmetov. Manafort also asked Kilimnik to pass polling data to Oleg Deripaska who is close to Putin.
Yanukovych hired Manafort's company Global Endeavour, a St. Vincent and Grenadines based consulting and lobbying company, which during the end of Yanukovych's presidency transferred $750,000 out of Ukraine and also paid Kilimnik $53,000 during November and December 2013.
From August until December 2016, Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko conducted an investigation into Konstantin Kilimnik but did not arrest him. Kilimnik managed Davis Manafort International in Kyiv. Kilimnik left Ukraine for Russia in June 2016. Davis Manafort International in Kyiv had been accused of money laundering by Robert Mueller 's Special Counsel investigation. Mueller considered Kilimnik a vital witness in the Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau informed the United States Department of State that Lutsenko had both thwarted Ukraine's investigation into Kilimink and allowed Kilimnik to leave Ukraine for Russia.
(Another polling firm employed by Trump was the Polling Company, whose C.E.O., Kellyanne Conway, replaced Manafort as campaign manager ...
But, even more significant, it was Paul Manafort who decided to hire Tony Fabrizio as the campaign’s chief pollster. Their friendship dates back to the nineteen-nineties—Fabrizio and Manafort worked together on the Presidential campaign of Bob Dole.
Adam Geller, the founder and C.E.O. of National Research, a Republican polling firm that worked with Fabrizio on the Trump campaign, told me, “I honestly have no idea what was and wasn’t shared with the Russians.”.
The revelation came in an inadvertently unredacted court document, which was filed by Manafort’s lawyers in response to charges made by the special counsel, Robert Mueller, that Manafort had lied to investigators. According to the Times, some—but not all—of the data was already in the public domain.
Halftime Report. Kilimnik, a Russian and Ukrainian political consultant who worked for years with the longtime Republican political operative and consultant Manafort, previously has been identified as a known agent for Russian intelligence services.
Kilimnik was indicted in 2017 along with Manafort on U.S. federal charges of obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice regarding lobbying work. That work was related to efforts by Kilimnik and Manafort, 70, to restore former Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych to power.
Kilimnik was indicted in 2017 along with Manafort on U.S. federal charges of obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice regarding lobbying work. That work was related to efforts by Kilimnik and Manafort, 70, to restore former Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych to power.
On April 26, 2016, Papadopoulos, a campaign foreign policy adviser, met in London with a professor he “understood to have substantial connections to Russian government officials,” according to a plea agreement that Papadopoulos reached with the Justice Department. At the meeting, the professor — later identified as Joseph Mifsud — told Papadopoulos that the Russian government had “dirt” on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails,” the plea agreement said.
On Dec. 29, 2016, with less than a month remaining in office, President Barack Obama announced “a number of actions in response to the Russian government’s aggressive harassment of U.S. officials and cyber operations aimed at the U.S. election in 2016.”
Ivanka Trump forwarded the email to Cohen, who mistakenly thought Klokov was a former Olympic weightlifter. (The Washington Post reported that Ivanka Trump had been in contact during the campaign with an “Olympic weightlifter turned entrepreneur,” as first reported by Buzzfeed in June 2018.)
Felix Sater, who was working with Cohen on the Moscow project, made numerous attempts to get both Cohen and Trump to visit Moscow and meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In May 2016, Sater emailed Cohen about arranging for Cohen and Trump to visit Russia.
She again declined, citing the hectic campaign. At around the same time, Anton Kobyakov, who is described by the Mueller report as “a Russian presidential aide involved with the Roscongress Foundation,” asked Robert Foresman, a New York banker, if Trump could speak at the St. Petersburg forum.
At a press conference on July 27, 2016, Trump said he doubted that Russia was responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee’s computer network, but he invited Russia to find the 30,000 personal emails that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s staff deleted when she left office.
Of course, there were contacts. Throughout the federal investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidenti al election, court filings and news organizations revealed numerous instances of campaign contacts with Russians that were not publicly known until after the election.
According to the then-Republican-led Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the ultrasensitive campaign information that Manafort passed to a Russian spy “ identified voter bases in blue-collar, democratic-leaning states which Trump could swing,” including in “Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota.”.
Marik von Rennenkampff served as an analyst with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation as well as an Obama administration appointee at the U.S. Department of Defense. Follow him on Twitter @MvonRen.
Invited to Moscow to attend party for Aras Agalarov and possibly meet Putin.
Contacted by a Russian social media executive about setting up a campaign page.
Was forwarded a proposal for a back-channel meeting with Russians, which he rebuffed.
According to Corsi, Stone also told him to have WikiLeaks “drop the Podesta emails immediately.”. The written answers given to Mueller's team by Trump's team are contradicted in many ways by the Senate report. see more. Show more replies.
The Senate report calls Kilimnik a Russian intelligence officer. There is no doubt that Manafort conspired with Russians, but Mueller handcuffed himself by requiring concrete evidence of conspiracy with the Kremlin. Putin has long used cutouts like Oleg Deripaska, to insulate himself and the Kremlin from guilt. see more.