The GOP lawmaker recently urged Democrats to join Republicans in a newly formed subcommittee tasked to investigate the 'weaponization' of the federal agencies.
released in 2019 revealed the findings of the two-year investigation that looked into whether members of the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government during the 2016 presidential election. The probe also focused on Manafort's work for Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs while he was Trump's campaign chairman.
The report also found that Manafort told Konstantin Kilimnik, a man with suspected connections to Russian intelligence services, about important battleground states in the 2016 race, including Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Michigan. Manafort expected Kilimnik to share information about the Trump campaign with Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire and industrialist who has close links to Russian PresidentRepresentative Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, speaks during an on-camera interview on January 9 in Washington, D.C. Jordan was confronted on Sunday about former President Donald Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort's link to a Russian oligarch.
"To the extent that may come in," Jordan said, as he discussed his role as House judiciary chair and his committee's investigations.
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