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Russian Ties: The indictment of the former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, who made a fortune as a political consultant to kleptocrats, stands as a rejection of. While it’s still not clear exactly where Manafort fits into Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, George Papadopoulos, a foreign-policy aide to the campaign who took a plea deal, since his July 2017 arrest. Meanwhile, Facebook executives are testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on how disinformation campaigns by Russian trolls may have influenced the election—and what they say might reveal how far .

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