https://www.justsecurity.org/75766/...ave-campaign-polling-data-to-kremlin-in-2016/ The U.S. Treasury Department said Thursday that Trump campaign Chairman, paul manafort, shared the campaign's sensitive polling data w Konstantin Kilimnik, w ties to Russian intelligence, who “provided the GRU with the sensitive information and campaign strategy,” during the 2016 election, an apparently definitive statement that neither Special Counsel Robert Mueller nor the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation made in their final reports. “This is new public information that connects the provision of internal Trump campaign data to Russian intelligence,” The Treasury Department’s new statement raises questions about why this information is coming out now and why the Special Counsel’s office did not have access to it during its investigation. Was it not available then or did it exist but was not provided to the Mueller team?
It's old news. January 2019 https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-would-paul-manafort-share-polling-data-with-russia
Trump and Russia shenanigans isn’t surprising wake me up if something is actually gonna come of this...until then, meh
Yeah, I saw that the first time. We knew Manafort gave info to Kilimnik, what was never made public was that Kilimnik turned around and gave that info to Russian intelligence (not that most of us with common sense didn't already know that's what happened). That's pretty much a textbook definition of collusion between the Trump Campaign and Russia. It raises the question of who has been sitting on this info and for how long. That's why this is new news and not old news. Really.
What Kilimnik did afterwards has nothing to do with Manafort. Furthermore it's just bad enough he gave the information. This doesn't make it worse
There's not really a good way to transition from "oh what? All this Russia stuff is a hoax" to "of course they collaborated with Russia! I knew that ya dummy!" that works, especially now that Trump is out of office and never coming back.