AP: Kilimnik played bigger role formulating pro-Russia strategy with Manafort than thought.

[triron]

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https://apnews.com/f498ec3fec8c4100b5751beb3bf9b2d0?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

[oasis]

1. Hopefully this will get coverage on Rachel Maddow tonight. She

and staff have been closely following Kilimnik's connections.

[MelissaB]

2. I'm going to post something controversial, but I think it needs to be posted.

Mar 2006 photo of Russian intelligence operative Konstantin Kilimnik [1] & his associates:
2- Tad Devine, BERNIE SANDERS 2016 senior campaign strategist
3- Manafort, TRUMP 2016 campaign chair
4- Christian Ferry, LINDSEY GRAHAM 2016 campaign manager

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Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska [who in 2016 was offered private Trump campaign briefings by Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort], named Lindsey Graham's 2016 campaign manager Christian Ferry as a key associate of Manafort in a $19M lawsuit in 2014.

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Tad Devine, Bernie Sanders' 2016 senior campaign strategist, worked with Paul Manafort in Ukraine [2006, 2009 & 2010] on the presidential campaign of now ousted, pro-Putin candidate Viktor Yanukovych.

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[triron]

3. Yep this will ellicit some pushback from some here.

Not me though. Thanks for having the courage to post this.

[MelissaB]

4. Thanks! Note to readers: I supported Bernie in the primaries.

[Mr. Ected]

5. Christian Ferry? Lindsey Graham's campaign manager?

What an unfortunate choice of names.