Manafort Offered to Provide Briefings of Presidential Race to Russian Tied to Kremlin
By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Paul Manafort, who served as Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, is accused of offering to provide briefings on the presidential election to a Russian billionaire with close ties to the Kremlin, the Washington Post reports.
People familiar with the discussions said Manafort made the offer in an email less than two weeks before Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination.
Manafort requested that his email be provided to Oleg Deripaska, an aluminum magnate who has past connections with Manafort.
“If he needs private briefings we can accommodate,” Manafort wrote in the July 7, 2016, email.
Federal authorities have no evidence yet that Deripaska received the email or any briefings.

Posted: 9/21/17 at 9:01 AM under News Story.
Tags: donald trump, paul manafort, Robert Mueller, Russia
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