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https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...d975285475e_story.html?utm_term=.5b60059f3bf1
And people are still calling this a big nothing burger? Stuff like this is still coming out weekly. Russia had it's tentacles all over the Trump campaign. Hopefully they didn't get too much information out of them and hopefully anyone that's been compromised is out. But I doubt it.
Less than two weeks before Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign chairman offered to provide briefings on the race to a Russian billionaire closely aligned with the Kremlin, according to people familiar with the discussions.
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The notes appear to be written in deliberately vague terms, with Manafort and his longtime employee, Konstantin Kilimnik, never explicitly mentioning Deripaska by name. But investigators believe that key passages refer to Deripaska, who is referenced in some places by his initials, “OVD,” according to people familiar with the emails. One email uses “black caviar,” a Russian delicacy, in what investigators believe is a veiled reference to payments Manafort hoped to receive from former clients.
In one April exchange days after Trump named Manafort as a campaign strategist, Manafort referred to his positive press and growing reputation and asked, “How do we use to get whole?”
And people are still calling this a big nothing burger? Stuff like this is still coming out weekly. Russia had it's tentacles all over the Trump campaign. Hopefully they didn't get too much information out of them and hopefully anyone that's been compromised is out. But I doubt it.