|
Directly from the Mueller report:
Manafort instructed Rick Gates, his deputy on the Campaign and a longtime employee, 839 to provide Kilimnik with updates on the Trump Campaign-including internal polling data , although Manafort claims not to recall that specific instruction. Manafort expected Kilimnik to share that information with others in Ukraine and with Deripaska . Gates periodically sent such polling data to Kilimnik during the campaign.
and then....
Gates also reported that Manafort instructed him in April 2016 or early May 2016 to send Kilimnik Campaign internal polling data and other updates so that Kilimnik, in turn, could share it with Ukrainian oli archs. 888 Gates understood that the information would also be shared with Deripaska . 889 Gates reported to the Office that he did not know why Manafort wanted him to send polling information , but Gates thought it was a way to showcase Manafort 's work, and Manafort wanted to open doors to jobs after the Trump Campaign ended. 890 Gates said that Manafort 's instruction included sending internal polling data prepared for the Trump Campaign by pollster Tony Fabrizio. 891 Fabrizio had worked with Manafort for years and was brought into the Campaign by Manafort . Gates stated that, in accordance with Manafort's instruction , he periodically sent Kilimnik polling data via WhatsApp ; Gates then deleted the communications on a daily basis.
Why would they be sending polling data to anyone outside of the RNC? Don't tell me this was information in the public. If that was the case the Russians would have gotten it themselves. And if it was in the public, why were they sending it via an encrypted app and then deleting it on a daily basis?
This is treason.
This is why Manafort is sitting in jail. Gates pleaded guilty to Conspiracy against the United
States.
This is only one example of direct collusion with the Russian government.
There are many more.
(note I am copying this directly from the report which includes numbers that are footnotes)
|