new reporting by the new york times today raises a jaw dropping question. here it goes. did the trump administration trade favors to ukraine and sell them weapons in exchange for shutting down investigations into paul manafort? according to the times, after the u.s. approved the sale of anti-tank missiles to ukraine earlier this year, the country froze four cases involving the former trump campaign chair manafort and allowed con tan steen kilimnik a potential witness to the russia probe to leave for russia. kilimniking is an old colleague of manafort who the mueller investigation identified as a russian spy. manafort e-mailed him about his work on the trump campaign asking how do we use ovd
shutting down investigations into paul manafort? according to the times, after the u.s. approved the sale of anti-tank missiles to ukraine earlier this year, the country froze four cases involving the former trump campaign chair manafort and allowed con tan steen kilimnik a potential witness to the russia probe to leave for russia. kilimniking is an old colleague of manafort who the mueller investigation identified as a russian spy. manafort e-mailed him about his work on the trump campaign asking how do we use ovd manafort owed millions. officials were frank about their decisions. one member saying in every possible way we will avoid irritating the top american officials we shouldn t spoil relations with this administration. here to help me, juliaoff if i and david ignatius associate editor of the washington post.