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Washington Post сообщает о личной встрече Константина Килимника с Полом Манафортом в августе 2016.

In August, as tension mounted over Russia’s role in the U.S. presidential race, Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, sat down to dinner with a business associate from Ukraine who once served in the Russian army. Konstantin Kilimnik, who learned English at a military school that some experts consider a training ground for Russian spies, had helped run the Ukraine office for Manafort’s international political consulting practice for 10 years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/at-height-of-russia-tensions-trump-campaign-chairman-manafort-met-with-business-associate-from-ukraine/2017/06/18/6ab8485c-4c5d-11e7-a186-60c031eab644_story.html

Встреча произошла за две недели до отставки Манафорта, то есть предположительно 5 августа 2016. Для избирательной кампании Трампа, которой руководил Манафорт, это было критическое время - на взлете поддержки Клинтон после демократического съезда и хаотического поведения Трампа, разрыв между кандидатами стал стремительно увеличиваться - по опросам Клинтон обгоняла Трампа на 10-15%.

Доклад в досье Стила от 5 августа дописывает панику в Кремле:

Speaking in early August 2016, two well-placed and established Kremlin sources outlined the divisions and backlash in Moscow arising from the leaking of Democratic National Committee (DNC) e-mails and the wider pro-TRUMP operation being conducted in the US. Head of Presidential Administration, Sergei IVANOV, was angry at the recent turn of events. He believed the Kremlin “team” involved, led by presidential spokesman Dmitriy PESKOV, had gone too far in interfering in foreign affairs with their “elephant in a china shop black PR”. IVANOV claimed always to have opposed the handling and exploitation of intelligence by this PR “team”. <...> According to the first source, close to IVANOV, there had been talk in the Kremlin of TRUMP being forced to withdraw from the presidential race altogether as a result of recent events, ostensibly on grounds of his state and unsuitability for high office.
https://themoscowproject.org/dossier.html

В такой ситуации действительно имело смысл получить информацию непосредственно от Манафорта.

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