Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, walks the floor at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on July 21, 2016. The first encounter was in early May 2016, about two weeks before the Trump adviser was elevated to campaign chairman. In Ukraine, Kilimnik’s political adversaries have said he may be working with Russian intelligence. “No one ever spoke to me ever about doing any intelligence work — neither Russians or Ukrainians or any other foreign country,” he said. In 2005, Griffin, who had left Moscow to work for Manafort in Ukraine, invited Kilimnik to join him there, according to both men.

Source: Washington Post June 19, 2017 10:05 UTC