UNCLASSIFIED VERSION OF THAT
REPORT RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC.
AND PERHAPS THIS IS WHY, RIGHT?
PERHAPS THE ROLL OF KONSTANTIN
KILIMNIK OF TRYING TO INTERFERE
INTO A FOREIGN ADVERSARY IN OUR
LAST ELECTION IS WHY THE FBI
FEELS SOME URGENCY IN TRYING TO
GET THIS GUY.
KONSTANTIN KILIMNIK IS NOW
EVIDENCE IS BY U.S. INTELLIGENCE
TO HAVE TRYING TO AFFECT TWO
CONSECUTIVE PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTIONS, 2016 AND 2020.
THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
BELIEVES IN BOTH THOSE ELECTIONS
HE WAS RUNNING OPERATIONS ON
BEHALF OF THE KREMLIN TO TRY TO
GET DONALD TRUMP INTO THE WHITE
HOUSE IN 2016 AND TO TRY TO KEEP
HIM THERE IN 2020.
AND THE REASON HIS NAME IS
FAMILIAR IS BECAUSE HIS NAME DID
SURFACE IN BIG WAYS IN THE
MUELLER INVESTIGATION, AND HIS
NAME SURFACED IN AN EVEN BIGGER
WAY LAST FALL WHEN THE SENATE
INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE PUT OUT
THEIR BIPARTISAN REPORT ON WHAT
HAPPENED IN 2016.
THIS GUY KILIMNICK HAD A
STARRING ROLE IN THAT REPORT,
PERHAPS MORE OF A STARRING ROLE
THAN ANY OTHER SINGLE PERSON.
THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE REPORT
SAID BLUNTLY KONSTANTIN
KILIMNICK IS A RUSSIAN
INTELLIGENCE OFFICER.
AND THAT WAS AN IMPORTANT BLUNT
ASSERTION, BECAUSE HE WAS SO
INVOLVED WITH THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN
IN 2016 WHILE HE WAS APPARENTLY
SERVING AS A RUSSIAN
INTELLIGENCE OFFICER.
YOU MIGHT REMEMBER THE REPORTING
THAT KILIMNICK WENT WAY BACK
WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP’S 2016
CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN PAUL MANAFORT.
YOU MAY ALSO REMEMBER THE
REPORTING THAT DURING THE 2016
CAMPAIGN, MANAFORT FOR SOME
REASON DECIDED TO CONVEY
SENSITIVE, NON-PUBLIC, TRUMP
CAMPAIGN DATA.
STRATEGY DOCUMENTS, INTERNAL
POLLING DOCUMENTS, TO THIS GUY,
KONSTANTIN KILIMNICK, WHO WAS A
RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE OFFICER.
WHY DID MANAFORT FEED SENSITIVE,
NON-PUBLIC TRUMP CAMPAIGN TODAY
TO A RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE
OFFICER DURING THE CAMPAIGN
WHILE RUSSIA WAS ENGAGING IN A
BIG HACKING OPERATION TO HELP
TRUMP WIN?
THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE REPORT
SAID, QUOTE, KILIMNICK LIKELY
SERVED AS A CHANNEL FOR MANAFORT
TO RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE
SERVICES.
THIS SAID THEY COULD NEVER
DISCERN WHAT WAS GOING ON THERE,
WHY TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN
WAS SHOVELING ALL THIS CAMPAIGN
MATERIAL TO A RUSSIAN
INTELLIGENCE OFFICER.
THEY SAID THEY NEVER GOT TO THE
BOTTOM OF IT BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH
MANAFORT WAS INTERVIEWED A DOZEN
TIMES, HE LIED CONSISTENTLY
DURING THESE INTERVIEWS ABOUT
ONE ISSUE IN PARTICULAR, HIS
INTERACTIONS WITH KILIMNICK, THE
RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE OFFICER AT
THE CENTER OF THE COMMITTEE’S
INVESTIGATION.
THESE LIES VIOLATED PAUL
MANAFORT’S PLEA AGREEMENT WHICH
OBLIGATED HIM TO BE TRUTHFUL IN
HIS COOPERATION WITH THE
GOVERNMENT.
THOSE LIES THEREFORE EXPOSED
MANAFORT TO A MORE SEVERE PRISON
SENTENCE THAN HIS PLEA AGREEMENT
CONTEMPLATED.
MANAFORT’S OBFUSCATION OF THE
TRUTH SURROUNDING KONSTANTIN
KILIMNICK WAS PARTICULARLY
DAMAGE TO GO THE COMMITTEE’S
INVESTIGATION BECAUSE IT
DIRECTLY FORECLOSED INSIGHT INTO
A SERIES OF INTERACTIONS AND
COMMUNICATIONS THAT ARE THE MOST
DIRECT TIE BETWEEN SENIOR TRUMP
CAMPAIGN OFFICIALS AND THE
RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES.
THAT WAS LAST FALL.
THAT WAS THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE
COMMITTEE’S REPORT.
THAT REPORT MENTIONED KONSTANTIN
KILIMNICK MORE THAN 750 TIMES BY
NAME.
WELL, AGAIN, THAT CAME OUT LAST
FALL.
NOW, IN VERY SHORT ORDER, WE
KNOW QUITE A BIT MORE.
RIGHT?
BECAUSE THAT WAS IN THE FALL.
THEN THERE WAS THE ELECTION.
THEN IN LATE DECEMBER, TRUMP
PARDONED PAUL MANAFORT FOR HIS
CRIMES.
SO, BIG PICTURE, THAT MEANS
MANAFORT EFFECTIVELY GOT AWAY
WITH WHATEVER IT WAS HE WAS
DOING WITH KONSTANTIN KILIMNICK
TO HELP TRUMP WITHOUT EVER
TELLING INVESTIGATORS THE TRUTH
ABOUT IT.
TRUMP EFFECTIVELY REWARDED HIM
FOR NOT SPILLING THE BEANS ABOUT
HIS WORK WITH A RUSSIAN
INTELLIGENCE OFFICER WHILE HE
WAS RUNNING TRUMP’S 2016
CAMPAIGN.
TRUMP GOT HIM OFF THE HOOK.
BECAUSE HE NEVER SQUEALED.
THAT PARDON WAS LATE DECEMBER.
IN FEBRUARY, AGAIN, WE SAW THE
FBI SUDDENLY SLAP A $250,000
REWARD OUT THERE FOR ANY
INFORMATION LEADING TO
KONSTANTIN KILIMNICK’S ARREST.
NOW WE KNOW, AS OF TODAY, WHAT
WAS GOING ON BEHIND THE SCENES
IN THE INTERIM WAS THE
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY WAS
CONCLUDING THAT KILLIMNICK WAS
NOT ONLY INVOLVED IN THE RUSSIAN
EFFORT TO INTERFERE WITH THE
ELECTION IN 2016, BUT TO ALSO
INTERFERE IN THE 2020 ELECTION
TO TRY TO GET TRUMP REELECTED.
QUOTE, WE ASSESS THAT PRESIDENT
PUTIN AND THE RUSSIAN STATE
AUTHORIZED AND CONDUCTED
INFLUENCE OPERATIONS AGAINST THE
2020 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
AIMED AT DENIGRATING PRESIDENT
BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY,
SUPPORTING FORMER PRESIDENT
TRUMP, UNDERMINING PUBLIC
CONFIDENCE IN THE ELECTORAL
PROCESS, AND EXACERBATING
SOCIOPOLITICAL DIVISIONS IN THE
UNITED STATES.
QUOTE, WE HAVE HIGH CONFIDENCE
IN THESE JUDGMENTS BECAUSE A
RANGE OF RUSSIAN STATE AND PROXY
ACTORS WHO ALL SERVE THE
KREMLIN’S INTERESTS WORKED TO
AFFECT U.S. PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS.
WE ALSO HAVE HIGH CONFIDENCE
BECAUSE OF THE CONSISTENCY OF
THEMES IN RUSSIA’S INFLUENCE
EFFORTS ACROSS THE CAMPAIGN.
QUOTE, A KEY ELEMENT OF MOSCOW’S
STRATEGY THIS ELECTION CYCLE WAS
ITS USE OF PEOPLE LINKED TO
RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE TO LAUNDER
INFLUENCE NARRATIVES INCLUDING
MISLEADING OR UNSUBSTANTIATED
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST PRESIDENT
BIDEN THROUGH U.S. MEDIA
ORGANIZATIONS, U.S. OFFICIALS,
AND PROMINENT U.S. INDIVIDUALS,
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
SOME OF WHOM WERE CLOSE TO
FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS
ADMINISTRATION.
QUOTE, THE PRIMARY EFFORT THE
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY UNCOVERED
REVOLVED AROUND A NARRATIVE THAT
RUSSIAN ACTORS BEGAN SPREADING
AS EARLY AS 2014, ALLEGING
CORRUPT TIES BETWEEN PRESIDENT
BIDEN, HIS FAMILY, OTHER U.S.
OFFICIALS, AND UKRAINE.
A NETWORK OF UKRAINE LINKED
INDIVIDUALS INCLUDING RUSSIAN
INFLUENCE AGENT KONSTANTIN
KILIMNICK WHO WERE ALSO
CONNECTED TO RUSSIAN
INTELLIGENCE SERVICES TOOK STEPS
THROUGHOUT THE ELECTION CYCLE TO
DAMAGE U.S. TIES TO UKRAINE, TO
U.S. OFFICIALS AND TO FALSELY
BLAME UKRAINE FOR INTERFERING IN
THE 2016 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION INSTEAD OF RUSSIA.
ANDRIY DERKACH, KONSTANTIN CAL I
AM IN THIS CASE AND THEIR
ASSOCIATES SOUGHT TO USE
PROMINENT U.S. PERSONS AND MEDIA
CONDUITS.
THESE RUSSIAN PROXIES MET WITH
AND PROVIDED MATERIALS TO TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION LINKED U.S.
PERSONS TO ADVOCATE FOR FORMAL
INVESTIGATIONS.
THEY HIRED A U.S. FIRM TO
PETITION U.S. OFFICIALS.
THEY ATTEMPTED TO MAKE CONTACT
WITH SEVERAL SENIOR U.S.
OFFICIALS.
THEY ALSO MADE CONTACT WITH
ESTABLISHED U.S. MEDIA FIGURES
AND HELPED PRODUCE A DOCUMENTARY