Exclusive: Robert Mueller met with Trump's pollster

[sunonmars]

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/10/politics/robert-mueller-trump-pollster/index.html

Special counsel Robert Mueller sought information directly last year from one of Donald Trump's campaign pollsters who is also a former business associate of Paul Manafort's.

Mueller's team met with pollster Tony Fabrizio in February 2018, an interview that has not been previously reported and takes on new significance after Manafort's attorneys revealed Tuesday that Mueller's team is still interested in how Manafort shared polling data with his Russian intelligence-linked colleague.
CNN journalists observed Fabrizio leaving the special counsel's office on the first of February last year and have since confirmed he was meeting with Mueller's team. At the time, the special counsel had been digging into Manafort's finances and political work ahead of his trial.
In a filing Tuesday, Manafort's attorneys tried to redact the fact that prosecutors knew Manafort shared polling data related to the 2016 presidential election with his Russian intelligence-linked associate Konstantin Kilimnik while Manafort was running Trump's presidential campaign. The information was supposed to remain secret because it's part of an ongoing investigation, but it was revealed because of a formatting error in the filing.
Fabrizio's involvement with Mueller is intriguing because he's one of the few people in Manafort's orbit with knowledge of the inner-workings of the Trump campaign as well as Manafort's Eastern European connections.
A veteran pollster and political strategist, Fabrizio worked on Ukrainian elections with Manafort and went on to serve as the Trump campaign's chief pollster beginning in the spring of 2016.
A source familiar with the special counsel's interest said Fabrizio's interview included questions about his polling work for Manafort in Ukraine rather than his internal Trump campaign polling. It is not clear what other topics were broached in the interview or whether it solely focused on Fabrizio's knowledge of Manafort's business dealings.

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He's digging and digging.......

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Whoa,this story keeps getting more and more

interesting.

[sunonmars]

2. Hard to believe that Mueller has not joined the dots completely.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Appears Trump is loving this

with his Shutdown. No funding for Team Mueller and Mueller and his Team appear to have all the info necessary,it is all about putting the Legal Binders together which takes manpower to do.

[sunonmars]

4. Won't be loving it for long.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Prediction,Trump gone by years end.

Another,Mitch McConnell is so damaged he will announce his retirement by after Summer break.

[peggysue2]

8. I agree, Wellstone

This is all coming to a head. Trumpski is flailing in all directions and the wrecking ball is ready to deliver the fatal blows. McConnell is getting heat in his own hometown newspaper, basically: It's time to lead or get out of the way.

I don't see the Trumpster lasting to the end of the year and McConnell has been compromised by Russian money and his own complicity in the ongoing fraud.

They're both toast!

[DeminPennswoods]

7. The Special Counsel's office is funded

A great irony to be sure.

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Read something about a 120 million

carry over in the DOJ budget,never heard is it was still in place or if Trump pulled it.

[DeminPennswoods]

6. Mueller got the "what" part of the polling data from Fabrizio

Rick Gates confirmed the "why" and "who".