Less than two weeks before Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign chairman offered to provide briefings on the race to a Russian billionaire closely aligned with the Kremlin, according to people familiar with the discussions.

Paul Manafort made the offer in an email to an overseas intermediary, asking that a message be sent to Oleg Deripaska, an aluminum magnate with whom Manafort had done business in the past, these people said.

“If he needs private briefings we can accommodate,” Manafort wrote in the July 7, 2016, email, portions of which were read to The Washington Post along with other Manafort correspondence from that time.

The emails are among tens of thousands of documents that have been turned over to congressional investigators and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s team as they probe whether Trump associates coordinated with Russia as part of Moscow’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3782063&forum_id=2#34578272)

Such as libs' continued efforts to import barbarians who want to kill us.

Not as interested in Manafort wanting to line his pockets behind Trump's back.

And you will see this reflected in every election result.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3782063&forum_id=2#34578283)

But I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Trump had absolutely nothing to do with it, and as a result there is 0 chance he gets indicted. More importantly, for a quid pro quo to exist, Trump must have helped Russia somehow. Never happened.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3782063&forum_id=2#34578451)

*produces proof of collusion*

"The American people don't care about collusion."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3782063&forum_id=2#34579252)

any mention of this in the article?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3782063&forum_id=2#34578596)

Are you ever right abkout anything?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3782063&forum_id=2#34578606)

but lol @ you obeezy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3782063&forum_id=2#34578673)

Manafort left in the middle of August.

And Trump still spoke with him after that and Rick Gates visited the white house...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3782063&forum_id=2#34578611)

So it's a given at this point the Trump campaign was interacting with Russian government operatives on multiple fronts. Manafort, lil Donald junior and papageorgio.

This is 180.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3782063&forum_id=2#34579155)

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-russia-campaign-platform-rnc-jd-gordon-2017-9

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3782063&forum_id=2#34580698)

https://sputniknews.com/us/201709211057577062-manafort-deripaska-trump-us-election-reports/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3782063&forum_id=2#34608007)

In August 2016, a private jet linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska traveled from Moscow to Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey.

The Gulfstream G550 (registration M-ALAY) landed shortly after midnight and, according to publicly available flight records, flew back to Moscow that same afternoon.

Deripaska, 50, is the founder of Basic Element, a Russian industrial conglomerate with massive holdings in aluminum, energy, and construction. With an estimated net worth of $6 billion, he can afford to send a private jet across the globe whenever he wants.

Still, according to a source familiar with the matter, that August flight has caught the attention of congressional investigators, in part because of its timing.

The jet arrived within hours of a meeting in nearby Manhattan between Paul Manafort, then chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, and Konstantin Kilimnik. Kilimnik spent over a decade as Manafort’s translator and fixer in Ukraine. Weeks earlier, Manafort had emailed his old associate and told him to extend an offer of "private briefings" to Deripaska, according to The Washington Post.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3782063&forum_id=2#35737353)

Prosecutors said in Monday's court filings that in addition to seizing tens of thousands of records from Manafort's home last year, they have also reviewed testimony he gave in a civil lawsuit in 2015 about a financial dispute with Deripaska, an aluminum magnate who is closely tied to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Deripaska's representatives claimed, in legal complaints filed in the Cayman Islands in 2014, that Manafort had disappeared after Deripaska gave him and Gates $19 million to invest in a failed Ukrainian TV venture in 2007.

Last year, The Washington Post reported that Manafort emailed the former Russian military intelligence operative Konstantin Kilimnik, beginning in April 2016, offering to give Deripaska "private briefings" about the Trump campaign.

Former intelligence officials told Business Insider that the offer was likely part of Manafort's effort to resolve his financial dispute with Deripaska.

Manafort and Kilimnik met in May and August during the 2016 campaign.

Manafort said he and Kilimnik discussed the Trump campaign and the recent hack of the Democratic National Committee during the August 2, 2016 meeting. Kilimnik, meanwhile, said they did not discuss the campaign, but talked about "current news" and "unpaid bills."

Within hours of the meeting, a private jet linked to Deripaska arrived in Newark, New Jersey, which is close to where Manafort and Kilimnik met. It left within 24 hours.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3782063&forum_id=2#35915399)

No administration has ever been as tough on Russia as Trump.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3782063&forum_id=2#37603018)