Paul Manafort directly confesses to collusion between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia

| 2:36 pm EDT August 8, 2022
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Once it was reported years ago that Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign manager and chairman Paul Manafort was sharing internal Trump campaign polling data with a Russian spy named Kilimnik, that was the ballgame. It proved Trump-Russia collusion all on its own. But after Bill Barr illegally buried the Mueller Report, and the mainstream media allowed Barr to get away with lying about the report’s contents, Trump and the Republican Party painted the Trump-Russia scandal as a “hoax” and insisted there was “no collusion.”

But now, for reasons known only to him, Paul Manafort is doing a new interview in which he directly confesses to having shared the polling data with Kilimnik. This isn’t some deathbed confession scenario, as Manafort appears to be defiantly bragging about having done so, even as he claims that Trump himself wasn’t in on it.

So Manafort wants us to believe that even as he was colluding with the Kremlin on behalf of the Trump 2016 campaign, a naive and gullible Donald Trump had no idea it was going on? That’s kind of a funny notion, given that while Manafort was doing this, Trump was out there pushing pro-Putin talking points and also hiring a bunch of other Kremlin-connected advisers like Michael Flynn.

But if you accept that Manafort was somehow doing this behind Trump’s back, it’s still a direct confession that the Trump 2016 campaign was indeed colluding with an agent of the Kremlin. The Trump-Russia scandal was real. Yes collusion. And while Manafort’s pardon is broad, the Feds need to find some crime Manafort committed that wasn’t covered by the pardon, so they can lock him up again.

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