Paul Manafort, Trump's 2016 campaign chairman, sat down for an exclusive interview with Insider. Manafort said he shared polling data with an associate thought to be tied to Russian intelligence.
, Paul Manafort, who served as Donald Trump's campaign chairman, made his first public admission that in 2016 he shared polling data from the Trump campaign with Konstantin Kilimnik, a longtime business associate with suspected ties to Russian intelligence., which has characterized the data as"sensitive information on polling and campaign strategy."
In his interview with Insider, Manafort reiterated that at least some of the data was public."The data that I shared with him was a combination of public information and stuff for the spring that was, it was old," he said. It's one of Manafort's primary lines of defense — that the data he funneled to Kilimnik was essentially worthless.
Kilimnik, a Soviet-born political consultant with a Russian passport, had worked closely with Manafort for years in his lobbying and election efforts on behalf of Viktor Yanukovych, the former president of Ukraine. Mueller and the FBI concluded that Kilimnik had ties to Russian intelligence. The Senate Intelligence Committee went further, calling Kilimnik"a Russian intelligence officer.
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