Russian intel officer flew in for Convention to oversee Trumps platform change

[L. Coyote]

What else did he fly in for? Did he meet with Trump and Junta?

Link to tweet

[bettyellen]

1. Isn't this the guy who met w Carter Page and others?

[wishstar]

8. That was Russian Ambassador Sislyak, this a different Russian-Konstantin Kilimnik.

Don't think it is known yet who Kilimnik might have met with, just that he had bragged about his presence there to make sure platform was more favorable.

Edited to say, it is known that he has long association with Paul Manafort

[dalton99a]

2. Trump can't pretend not to have known

[flamingdem]

3. Dayum they are SLOPPY

Nothing like being obvious

[HipChick]

5. Yes, quite a trail..

[dhill926]

4. if true....and provable....

this would seem to be a pretty big thing....

[triron]

6. Rachel (TRMS) reported this tonite.

[jmg257]

7. Sure wish Palmer would post facts to back his opinions.

[wishstar]

9. Palmer states info comes from this Politico article:"Authorities looked into Manafort protege"

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-russia-manafort-235850

"U.S. and Ukrainian authorities have expressed interest in the activities of a Kiev-based operative with suspected ties to Russian intelligence who consulted regularly with Paul Manafort last year while Manafort was running Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

The operative, Konstantin Kilimnik, came under scrutiny from officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the State Department partly because of at least two trips he took to the U.S. during the presidential campaign, according to three international political operatives familiar with the agencies’ interest in Kilimnik.

Kilimnik, a joint Russian-Ukrainian citizen who trained in the Russian army as a linguist, told operatives in Kiev and Washington that he met with Manafort during an April trip to the United States. And, after a late summer trip to the U.S., Kilimnik suggested that he had played a role in gutting a proposed amendment to the Republican Party platform that would have staked out a more adversarial stance towards Russia, according to a Kiev operative."