Manafort Admits He Shared Polling Data with Russian Asset

Paul Manafort, who served as Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, told Insider “that in 2016 he shared polling data from the Trump campaign with Konstantin Kilimnik, a longtime business associate with suspected ties to Russian intelligence.”

“Manafort’s acknowledgment contradicts his earlier denials, during the investigation into election interference conducted by the special counsel Robert Mueller, that he had anything to do with the transfer of sensitive campaign data. It also differs from the account he gives in his forthcoming memoir, Political Prisoner, in which he concedes only that he presented Kilimnik with ‘talking points‘ on polling data that was already public.”