After Trump won the election, Kilimnik wrote to Manafort that the plan would need U.S. support and that it could use a "very minor wink" from Trump.That's a quid pro quo.
If that doesn't constitute some greyness, Glenn, then I don't know what to tell you. Things are not so cut and dry as some would like to pretend.
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