2016 ELECTION/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Members of the 2016 Trump campaign represented a major counterintelligence risk to the U.S. due to their frequent contacts with individuals with close ties to the Russian government, a bipartisan Senate investigation has concluded…
A substantial portion of the report focuses on the connections of onetime Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort with Konstantin Kilimnik, who is officially described for the first time as a Russian intelligence officer…
The report also states that Mr. Manafort may have been connected to the Russian intelligence operation to hack and leak Democratic emails as part of its broader effort to denigrate Hillary Clinton’s candidacy and support President Trump’s campaign.”
-Dustin Volz and Warren P. Strobel, “Senate Intelligence Committee Releases Final Report From Russia Investigation,” wsj.com, Aug. 18, 2020