The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee released a 996-page report delivering "irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling."
WASHINGTON – Paul Manafort's role as chairman of the Trump campaign, his longstanding ties to people affiliated with Russian intelligence services, and his willingness to share information with them"represented a grave counterintelligence threat" during the 2016 presidential race, according to a new report from the Senate Intelligence Committee.
"We can say, without any hesitation, that the Committee found absolutely no evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump or his campaign colluded with the Russian government to meddle in the 2016 election," Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida and the committee's acting chairman, said."What the Committee did find, however, is very troubling. We found irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling.
Democrats, meanwhile, highlighted findings about Trump campaign officials' contacts with Russian actors. While Mueller's investigators described Kilimnik as someone with ties to Russian intelligence, the committee called him"a Russian intelligence officer" with whom Manafort"sought to secretly share" sensitive internal polling data from the Trump campaign. The committee, however, was unable to determine why Manafort did so, or with whom Kilimnik shared the information.
Manafort is one of half a dozen former Trump aides and associates who were indicted as a result of the Mueller investigation. The Senate panel's findings on Manafort and Kilimnik mirrored some of those in Mueller's report. In 2018, Manafort and Kilimnik were charged together with attempting to obstruct Mueller’s investigation by seeking to block the testimony of at least two witnesses.
Stone was convicted of lying to Congress about his interactions with the Trump campaign and Wikileaks. He was set to begin serving his 40-month sentence when Trump granted him clemency.
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