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Paul Manafort is the chairman for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

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Paul Manafort
stated on August 14, 2016 in an interview on "State of the Union":

Says there was a "NATO base in Turkey being under attack by terrorists."

By Linda Qiu • August 16, 2016
Paul Manafort
stated on August 14, 2016 in an interview on "State of the Union":

In Hillary Clinton's tax returns, "you saw a lot of income coming from donors to the Clinton Foundation and people who benefitted from her State Department term as well."

By Linda Qiu • August 14, 2016
Paul Manafort
stated on July 31, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"The DNC hack showed you that the Clinton campaign was working to schedule (primary) debates against (Bernie) Sanders," and the Clinton campaign is continuing this "ploy" against Donald Trump.

By Linda Qiu • July 31, 2016
Paul Manafort
stated on July 19, 2016 in a press conference:

"The Clinton camp was the first to get it out there and try to say there was something untoward about the speech that Melania Trump gave."

By Lauren Carroll • July 19, 2016

Kevin Downing
stated on March 13, 2019 in remarks to reporters:

Says Paul Manafort’s sentencing judge, Amy Berman Jackson, "conceded that there was absolutely no evidence of any Russian collusion in this case. So that makes two courts. Two courts have ruled no evidence of any collusion with any Russians."

By Louis Jacobson • March 14, 2019

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