Paul Manafort Shared Trump Campaign Polling Data with Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska in 2016

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Am 10.01.2019 um 19:58 schrieb Mark Kohut:

> The original post said "ultimately" it made its way to Deripaska, which is confirmed all over.

How so?

 From the article you linked to:

"Later on Wednesday, Ken Vogel, one of the authors of the Times piece, 
walked back entirely any reference to Deripaska (...)"

"Editor's Note: This post has been updated to reflect a New York Times 
correction indicating Paul Manafort gave Konstantin Kilimnik 
instructions to share the Trump polling data with two pro-Russia 
Ukrainian oligarchs, not Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska."

Not that I am terribly interested in this, and I certainly have no 
sympathy for Manafort or Trump, but: I can see no confirmation there but 
just the opposite. So, where is it?


While I am at it, here are some other Russiagate tidbits that I find 
much more interesting:

"“Would you agree that a lot of what’s in the Steele dossier has been 
somewhat vindicated?”

“No.”

“You would not?”

“No.”

https://soundcloud.com/freespeechbroadcasting/2018-12-15-2-michael-isikoff

(26:50)

"’Did you, Bob Woodward, hear anything in your research in your 
interviews that sounded like espionage or collusion?’ Hugh Hewitt asked 
Woodward.

“’I did not, and of course, I looked for it, looked for it hard,’ 
Woodward answered. ‘And so you know, there we are. …..’

“’But you’ve seen no collusion?’ Hewitt asked again to confirm.

“’I have not,’ Woodward affirmed."

https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2018/09/18/woodward-no-evidence-of-trump-russia-collusion-i-searched-hard-for-two-years/

And then there is the Guardian's Luke Harding (make sure to watch the 
interview with Aaron Maté on The Real News), who has now fabricated a 
story about Manafort meeting Julian Assange out of whole cloth. This was 
too much even for the WP:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-guardian-offered-a-bombshell-story-about-paul-manafort-it-still-hasnt-detonated/2018/12/03/60e38182-f71c-11e8-863c-9e2f864d47e7_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8e01d1c3c0c1

Glenn Greenwald (I know, but perhaps we can stop shooting messengers and 
instead focus on the issues) has more on it:

https://theintercept.com/2018/11/27/it-is-possible-paul-manafort-visited-julian-assange-if-true-there-should-be-ample-video-and-other-evidence-showing-this/

The Politico actually claimed that this was a Russian plot to make Luke 
Harding look bad:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/28/paul-manafort-julian-assange-222694

The Guardian has issued neither an correction nor a retraction. Instead, 
Harding went on to write an article about the Skripal affair.