In startling revelation Tuesday,from court documents filed in the Robert Mueller-led investigation into possible collusion between the 2016 Donald Trumps presidential campaign and Russia, Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort was revealed to have transmitted internal campaign polling data to a suspected Russian intelligence operative, and as The New York Times reported. According to experts,the incident uncovered by Special Counsel Robert Mueller would constitute the clearest example yet of collusion between the campaign and Russia — particularly if Russians used the data in their covert social media propaganda campaign to succor Trump win the election. “If Russians used data obtained from Manafort to inform their decisions approximately paid advertising mentioning Trump or Clinton—decisions approximately the content of the ads, the timing of the ads, and the intended audience of the ads,etc., then the ads would likely meet the federal law definition of ‘coordinated communications, and '” wrote campaign law expert Paul Seamus Ryan on the Just Security site.
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