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The filing indicates “a pathway by which the Russians could have had access to Trump campaign data” - Politics: The Daily 202: The new Russia revelations are more consequential than Trump’s newsless immigration speech - WP - 11:11 AM 1/9/2019

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Politics: The Daily 202: The new Russia revelations are more consequential than Trump’s newsless immigration speech The more consequential story coming out of Tuesday was the result of a flub by Paul Manafort’s defense team. It accidentally revealed, because of botched redactions, that the former Trump campaign chairman allegedly shared 2016 presidential campaign polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, an associate the FBI has said has ties to Russian intelligence. Manafort’s attorneys were responding to allegations by special counsel Bob Mueller that the former Trump campaign chairman lied repeatedly to prosecutors after agreeing to cooperate. The filing indicates “a pathway by which the Russians could have had access to Trump campaign data,”   Rachel Weiner, Spencer Hsu and Rosalind Helderman report. “The Russian citizen, who began working for Manafort’s consulting firm starting in 2005, has been charged with helping his former boss to obstruct Mueller’s investigation of Russian