The squeeze is on Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump’s campaign who has become a major target of special counsel Robert Mueller’s aggressive investigation. The latest details from the Washington Post describe email evidence that Manafort offered “private briefings” about the Trump campaign to a Kremlin-backed billionaire. According to the Post’s sources, Manafort sent an email in July 2016 to an intermediary of Oleg Deripaska, the Russian oligarch. “If he needs private briefings we can accommodate,” the Trump campaign chairman wrote. Among other emails the Mueller investigation is examining, Manafort and a Kiev-based employee appear to reference Deripaska Read the full story here > |