WASHINGTON — Russian intelligence services pursued myriad avenues to influence the Trump campaign in 2016, according to the Senate Intelligence Committee, but none was more important than the relationship between the campaign chairman Paul Manafort and a man who had been his friend and co-worker for years: a Russian intelligence officer named Konstantin V. Kilimnik.
New York Times: Report details Manafort’s ties during 2016 Trump campaign to a Russian agent
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), holds up a picture of Paul Manafort while questioning Deputy Assistant FBI Director Peter Strzok during a joint committee hearing of the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill July 12, 2018 in Washington, DC.
