Here's why Robert Mueller is so interested in Paul Manafort's time on the campaign
Here’s why Robert Mueller is so interested in Paul Manafort’s time on the campaign
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/08/heres-why-robert-mueller-is-so-interested-paul-manaforts-time-campaign/?utm_source=reddit.com&utm_term=.907a3c290dd5
By Philip Bump at the Washington Post
"SNIP....
Aug. 2, 2016. Manafort, Gates and Kilimnik meet at the Grand Havana Room in New York, a members-only cigar club near Trump Tower.
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“[T]here is an in-person meeting with someone who the Government has certainly proffered to this Court in the past, is understood by the FBI, assessed to be — have a relationship with Russian intelligence,” he said, referring to Kilimnik. “And there is an in-person meeting at an unusual time for somebody who is the campaign chairman to be spending time, and to be doing it in person.”
"That meeting and what happened at that meeting is of significance to the special counsel,” he added.
Later in the transcript published Thursday, it’s revealed that Gates and Manafort took pains to leave the meeting separately from Kilimnik, in an effort, Weissman suggested, to mask their interactions with him.
What was discussed at the meeting? It's not clear.
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