In addition, Manafort and Kilimnik swapped a large number of private emails. In one, sent two weeks before Trump accepted the nomination, Manafort delivered a message via Kilimnik to Deripaska. It made an offer: Manafort was willing to give the oligarch the inside track on Trump’s election campaign. “If he [Deripaska] needs private briefings we can accommodate,” Manafort wrote on July 7. Deripaska’s close relationship with Putin meant that any such briefing would reach the Kremlin.
