All the evidence points to the conclusion that Donald Trump colluded with Russia and persuaded his top lieutenants to cover up their guilt. jonathanchait writes
Photo: Mikhail Klimentyev/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images Throughout the Trump era, the Senate Intelligence Committee has walked a careful line. The Republican-controlled committee has taken Russian interference seriously and conducted at least somewhat bipartisan investigations, occasionally infuriating Trump and his allies.
Since the Mueller report came out last year, Trump and his minions have insisted it found no evidence of collusion. In fact, Mueller explicitly wrote that he was not investigating collusion at all. Manafort had previously run a pro-Russian presidential campaign in Ukraine before signing up with Trump . His business partner, Konstantin Kilimnik, was and is a Russian intelligence agent. “On numerous occasions, Manafort sought to secretly share internal Campaign information with Kilimnik,” the report finds.
Manafort hardly dispelled the suspicions. Rather than coming clean with investigators, he bought a burner phone to communicate with Kilimnik and his former partner, Rick Gates. And he used a technique called “foldering” to communicate surreptitiously.
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