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Manafort's role in it, and assessed Trump's prospects for victory.[1]
Manafort did not
acknowledge instructing Gates to send Kilimnik internal data, Grand Jury
[2]
The Office also obtained contemporaneous emails that shed light on the purpose of the communications with Deripaska and that are consistent with Gates's account. For example, in response to a July 7, 2016, email from a Ukrainian reporter about Manafort's failed Deripaska- backed investment, Manafort asked Kilimnik whether there had been any movement on "this issue with our friend."[3] Gates stated that "our friend" likely referred to Deripaska,[4] and Manafort told the Office that the "issue" (and "our biggest interest," as stated below) was a solution to the Deripaska-Pericles issue.[5] Kilimnik replied:
I am carefully optimistic on the question of our biggest interest.
Our friend [Boyarkin] said there is lately significantly more attention to the campaign in his boss' [Deripaska's] mind, and he will be most likely looking for ways to reach out to you pretty soon, understanding all the time sensitivity. | am more than sure that it will be resolved and we will get back to the original relationship with V.'s boss [Deripaska].[6]
Eight minutes later, Manafort replied that Kilimnik should tell Boyarkin's "boss," a reference to Deripaska, "that if he needs private briefings we can accommodate."[7] Manafort has alleged to the Office that he was willing to brief Deripaska only on public campaign matters and gave an example: why Trump selected Mike Pence as the Vice-Presidential running mate.[8]
Manafort said he never gave Deripaska a briefing.[9] Manafort noted that if Trump won, Deripaska would want to use Manafort to advance whatever interests Deripaska had in the United States and elsewhere.[10]
- ↑ 8/18/16 Email, Kilimnik to Dirkse; 8/18/16 Email, Kilimnik to Schultz; 8/18/16 Email, Kilimnik to Marson; 7/27/16 Email, Kilimnik to Ash; 8/18/16 Email, Kilimnik to Ash; 8/18/16 Email, Kilimnik to Jackson; 8/18/16 Email, Kilimnik to Mendoza-Wilson; 8/19/16 Email, Kilimnik to Patten.
- ↑ Grand Jury
- ↑ 9/7/16 Email, Manafort to Kilimnik.
- ↑ Gates 2/2/18 302, at 13.
- ↑ Manafort 9/11/18 302, at 6.
- ↑ 7/8/16 Email, Kilimnik to Manafort.
- ↑ 7/8/16 Email, Kilimnik to Manafort; Gates 2/2/18 302, at 13.
- ↑ Manafort 9/11/18 302, at 6.
- ↑ Manafort 9/11/18 302, at 6.
- ↑ Manafort 9/11/18 302, at 6.
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