Washington Post: “The Trump campaign chairman’s contacts with Kremlin-linked officials posed a ‘grave counterintelligence threat,’ according to the final volume of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, which also found that some of the campaign’s other Russian contacts had closer ties to Moscow’s government and intelligence services than previously reported.”
“The volume, released Tuesday, states that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort worked with a Russian intelligence officer ‘on narratives that sought to undermine evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election,’ including the idea that Ukrainian election interference was of greater concern. The report also states that Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya, who met with Manafort, the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and his son-in-law Jared Kushner at Trump Tower in 2016, had ‘significant connections’ to the Kremlin. The information she offered to them was also ‘part of a broader influence operation targeting the United States that was coordinated, at least in part with elements of the Russian government,’ the report states.”