Here's what AP reported:
Before signing up with Donald Trump, former campaign manager Paul Manafort secretly worked for a Russian billionaire with a plan to "greatly benefit the Putin Government," The Associated Press has learned. The White House attempted to brush the report aside Wednesday, but it quickly raised fresh alarms in Congress about Russian links to Trump associates.
Manafort proposed in a confidential strategy plan as early as June 2005 that he would influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States, Europe and former Soviet republics to benefit President Vladimir Putin's government, even as U.S.-Russia relations under Republican President George W. Bush grew worse.
Manafort pitched the plans to aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska, a close Putin ally with whom Manafort eventually signed a $10 million annual contract beginning in 2006, according to interviews with several people familiar with payments to Manafort and business records obtained by the AP. Manafort and Deripaska maintained a business relationship until at least 2009, according to one person familiar with the work.
The Trump White House, of course, not is claiming Manafort had very little to do with Trump's campaign. Which is a lie, as he was Trump's top campaign official, in charge to talk to the press and to get Trump the delegates to win the Republican primaries. And according to Bloomberg, Manafort's had A LOT to do with Trump's campaign.
So now the White House lies about Manafort too because he clearly was involved with Russia. According to Sean Spicer, Trump didn't know about Manafort's clients. Too bad that's not believable at all.
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