re: #73 MsJ

Yesterday’s redaction disaster for Manafort clearly shows that this is a big deal, likely the biggest nugget we have gotten thus far. I am pretty surprised it’s not a bigger deal.

Josh Marshall is also surprised:

I think the hoopla over President Trump’s Oval Office address tonight has temporarily blunted or distracted people from the full import of what the Times just reported about the Trump campaign polling data. They may even have missed some of it themselves since they buried that nugget well down into the piece.[emphasis added] Paul Manafort was secretly sharing confidential campaign polling data with a top Russian oligarch who is closely tied to Vladimir Putin. To me this really ends the debate about ‘collusion’, to the extent there still was one. It seems bigger than the Trump Tower meeting.

To my mind, it almost makes moot whether or not Cohen was in Prague.