plus this little nuggetThat’s absurd, common sense dictates that alone Manaford secretly meeting with Russians to exchange polling data proves the two were working together
“The committee found that Russian President Vladimir Putin was personally behind the hack and leak operation that published stolen Democratic Party emails, and that WikiLeaks — the website that published them — played a key role and "very likely knew it was assisting a Russian intelligence influence effort."
The Trump campaign sought to take advantage of those leaks by asking for advance notice of the WikiLeaks disclosures, crafting public relations strategies around them, and even encouraging "further theft of information and continued leaks."
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/18/9035...aul-manafort-shared-campaign-info-with-russia