of internal trump campaign polling data. nonpublic proprietary information on the campaign s plans and strategy, particularly in key states in the industrial midwest that trump would go on to unexpectedly flip on his way to an election night victory in 2016. why did deripaska want that kind of granular information? manafort is known to have passed that data on to deripaska during the 2016 campaign through an intermediary who has himself now been charged by federal prosecutors, the intermediary manafort used to ship this stuff to deripaska is believed by the fbi to himself be linked to russian intelligence. so when it comes to what russia did and how russia messed with our election, deripaska is this key figure who is still a bit of a mystery. he definitely plugs into the manafort part of this scandal in a way that mueller s report essentially leaves as an open question. this is from mueller s report.