Schiff: Manafort Is ‘Effectively a Liaison Between Trump Campaign and Russian Intelligence’

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SCHIFF: "And let’s remember that during that 2016 campaign, while Manafort is the chair of the campaign, he is secretly meeting with this Russian intelligence officer or operative, Konstantin Kilimnik, as you were discussing, giving them internal polling information. This is the same Russian intelligence that is hacking and dumping the DNC documents, that is working with a troll farm in St. Petersburg to try to essentially run a covert social media campaign for Donald Trump. So he is effectively the liaison between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence. And as part of that relationship, he’s also involved in a pro-Russian plan for eastern Ukraine. What could there possibly be to worry about in having someone like that brought into a presidential campaign again? Not to mention the fact that he was tried and convicted of various fraudulent activities, including those around not registering as a foreign agent, involved with trying to intimidate other witnesses. We don’t know even more about his role and his relationship with Russian intelligence because he used encrypted apps and he refused to cooperate when it came to Kilimnik. So, all kinds of sirens going on with this prospect."