Thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome, everyone, to the last gasp of the russia collusion Conspiracy Theory. As democrats continue to voice this expect tackle on the American People as well as you, mr. Mueller, the American People may recall the media first began spreading this Conspiracy Theory in the spring of 2016 when fusion gps, funded by the dnc and the Hillary Clinton campaign started developing the Steele Dossier, a question of outlandish accusations that trump and his associates were russian agents. Fusion gps, steele and other confederates fed these theorys to naive reporters and top officials in numerous government agencies, including the fbi, Department Of Justice and the State Department. Among other things, the fbi used Dossier Allegations to obtain a
warranty to spy on the Trump Campaign. Despite acknowledging Dossier Allegations as being salacious and unverified, former fbi director james comey briefed those allegations to President Obama and president elect trump. Those bri
Thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome, everyone, to the last gas of the russia collusion Conspiracy Theory. As democrats continue to foist the spectacle on the American People, as well as you, mr. Mueller, the American People may recall the media first began spreading this Conspiracy Theory in the spring of 2016. When the fusion gps, funded by the dnc and the elder Clinton Campaign, started developing the Steele Dossier. A collection of outlandish accusations that trump and his associates were russian agents. Effusion gps, steel, and other confederates and to top officials in numerous agencies, quitting the fbi, the apartment of justice, and the state department. Among other things, the fbi used dusty allegations to obtain a
warrant to spy on the Trump Campaign. Despite acknowledging dusty allegations as being salacious and unverified, former fbi director james comey briefed those allegations to President Obama and president elect trump. This briefings conveniently leaked to the press. Laun
ambassador and since the russians were on the other side of that conversation, they could have exposed that, could they not? yes. if a presidential candidate was doing business in russia and saying he wasn t, russians could expose that, too, could they not? i ll leave that to you. i want to look more closely, sir, at paul manafort. your investigation found a number of troubling contacts between mr. manafort and russian officials before and after the campaign, is that correct? correct. mr. manafort met with a man named konstantin kilimnik, is that right, sir? correct. in fact, mr. manafort didn t just meet with him, he shared private trump campaign polling information with this man linked to russian intelligence, is that right, sir? that is correct. and in turn, the information was shared with a russian oligarch tied to vladimir putin, is that right, sir? allegedly.
campaign polling information with this man linked to russian intelligence, is that right? that is correct. in turn the information was shared with an ol dark tied with vladimir putin? allegedly. director mueller, meeting with him wasn t enough. sharing polling information wasn t enough. he offered this russian oligarch tied to putin a private briefing on the campaign, is that right? yes, sir. mr. manafort discussed internal campaign strategy on four battle ground states. michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania and minnesota. did he not, sir? that s reflected in the report. he hoped to be paid back money he was owed by russian or ukrainian oligarchs in return for the passage of private campaign thachgz. s that true.
betrayed our country, lied to the grand jury, tampered with witnesses and who repeatedly tried to use his position with the trump campaign to make more money. let s focus on the betrayal and greed. your investigation, sir, found a number of troubling contacts between mr. manafort and russian individuals before and after the campaign. is that right, sir? right. correct. in addition to the june 9th meeting just discussed, manafort also met several times with a man named konstantin kilimnik, who was found to have ties to the russian government. correct. he didn t just meet with him but shared private trump campaign polling information with this man linked to russian intelligence. is that correct, sir? that is correct. in return, the information was shared with a russian oligarch tied to vladimir putin. is that correct, sir? allegedly. director mueller, meeting with him wasn t enough. sharing internal polling