I want to emphasize that this is a question about Manafort, not about Trump. And that even if it does not involve Trump it is still a very serious scandal.
So the case is as follows.
Several Russian individuals working for the GRU have been indicated for interfering with the 2016 election.
While this was going on Paul Manafort was sharing data internally generated by the Trump campaign with a Russian oligarch with ties to Putin.
This is exactly the kind of data that would be useful to the Russian troll farm in targeting their efforts.
It seems very clear to me. This is the proverbial smoking gun (or smocking gun as Trump calls it).
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.was...10/this-is-exactly-what-collusion-looks-like/
Napolitano on Collusion: Mueller Can Show Trump Campaign "Had A Connection To Russian Intelligence"
So the case is as follows.
Several Russian individuals working for the GRU have been indicated for interfering with the 2016 election.
While this was going on Paul Manafort was sharing data internally generated by the Trump campaign with a Russian oligarch with ties to Putin.
This is exactly the kind of data that would be useful to the Russian troll farm in targeting their efforts.
It seems very clear to me. This is the proverbial smoking gun (or smocking gun as Trump calls it).
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.was...10/this-is-exactly-what-collusion-looks-like/
Napolitano on Collusion: Mueller Can Show Trump Campaign "Had A Connection To Russian Intelligence"