Acting on a tip from valued commenter and awesome law-giver Cleek in the thread downstairs, I call your attention to CBS News and Washington Post stories about the Mueller team’s interest in Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates’ work with a Russian intelligence agency asset. Via The Post:
The FBI has found that a business associate of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort had ongoing ties to Russian intelligence, including during the 2016 campaign when Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates, were in touch with the associate, according to new court filings.
The documents, filed late Tuesday by prosecutors for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, also allege that Gates had said he knew the associate was a former officer with the Russian military intelligence service.
The allegations underscore Mueller’s interest in Manafort and Gates, who continued to interact with business associates in Ukraine even as they helped lead Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Looks considerably rat-fucky, sounds pretty tick-tocky and smells fairly smoking-gunny to me, friends. What do you think?