7/3/2023 0 Comments Manafort redacted![]() ![]() This is all from just one small section of a nearly 200-page volume of a report, which included other possible-albeit nondefinitive-evidence of potential collusion. As the report puts it: “And while Manafort denied that he spoke to members of the Trump campaign or the new Administration about the peace plan, he lied to Office and the grand jury about the peace and his meetings with Kilimnik, and his unreliability on this subject was among the reasons that the district judge found that he breached his cooperation agreement.” Basically, we only know that Trump and his campaign did not work with the Russians on this “backdoor” plan to give Russia Eastern Ukraine if you take Manafort’s word for it, which-as evidenced by the above quote from the report-the special counsel does not.Īgain, this really doesn’t sound all that much like “no collusion.” It sounds more like “maybe collusion, but we really couldn’t prove what happened once the top Trump campaign official gave internal polling data to a suspected Russian agent and likely top Putin ally, because of our ‘limited ability’ to gather such evidence inside of Russia.” Mueller also notes, though, that Manafort lied to his office repeatedly and that Mueller’s team did not have access to messages from multiple encrypted apps. Why isn’t it shady enough to be criminal and why did it result in a finding that Barr has repeatedly summarized as “no collusion”? Mueller says that his team wasn’t able to prove that the campaign, beyond Manafort-who was the chairman of said campaign-was involved.
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