Manafort and potential issues for Trump campaign. Trump Tower Meeting We know Mueller has a lot of documents and testimony about the Trump Tower meeting where Don Jr was promised by a family friend and business partner documents that "  "would be very useful to your father.... high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump."  Manafort was in the Trump Tower meeting and he took notes about the meeting, so he can clear up a lot of things about that including did Donald Trump know about this meeting, what did Team Trump expect to get at this meeting.  Russian activity in the election Manafort basically worked for the Russian oligarch Oleg Derispaska who is particularly close to Putin and according to US government very close to Russian organized crime.  He sanctioned by the US government in 2018     https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/20180406.aspx Manafort also seemed to owe Deripaska lot of money in 2016.  (I believe this is particular way the Russian system of corruption works.  When you are with us you have access to a lot of money --Manafort was getting $10 million a year from Deripaska--  that you never had to repay, but these payments are going to look like loans.  And if you stop working with us, then we will sue you for the millions you owe and bankupt you.) Manafort offered private briefings to Deripaska while he was Trump's campaign manager as a way to "get whole"  aka get out of his debts. https://web.archive.org/web/20170921003301/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/manafort-offered-to-give-russian-billionaire-private-briefings-on-2016-campaign/2017/09/20/399bba1a-9d48-11e7-8ea1-ed975285475e_story.html?utm_term=.125eed948f4d A Russian activist published photos of a secret meeting between Deripaska and Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Sergei Eduardovich Prikhodko on a yacht and said Deripaska's girlfriend said they were talking about the US Election. Manafort acknowledged in court he and his employee Konstantin Kilimnick were guilty of witness tampered this year.  Kilimnick is a trained GRU (Russian military intel) translator. Roger Stone Stone is Donald Trump's friend and his oldest political advisor. Stone and Manafort were "boyhood friends" from their days in the College Republicans. When Stone ran for the President of the Young Republicans, Manafort managed his campaign.  When Stone and Manafort formed a lobbying company in the 1980, Trump was their first candidate. Stone has said that he expects to be indicted by Mueller.  Stone is known to have been in contact with the GRU intel officer who posed a Romananian Hacker.  Stone was also in contact with Wikileaks through intermediaries.  Stone seemed to know about hacked emails before they were released publicly.    Changes to the Republican Platform At the RNC Team Trump asked for one change to the platform, the change was pro-Russia. possible Bribes for positions in the Trump administration In Manafort's money laundering trial it came out that one of the ways he laundered money was committing bank fraud and taking out fraudulent mortgages on property he already owned 100%  (bought with cash through shell companies and transferred to Manafort for $0. The prosecutor's said the bank's CEO was in on this fraud because he wanted to be Secretary of the Army.  A federal prosecutor told a judge on Friday that bank CEO Steve Calk participated — alongside former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort — in a conspiracy to defraud his own small Chicago-based bank. “Mr. Calk is a co-conspirator,” prosecutor Greg Andres said to the judge during Manafort’s trial on charges that include defrauding The Federal Savings Bank. “Mr. Manafort was submitting both false documents and other material to the bank,” Andres added. “Mr. Calk approved those loans. And it’s the government’s theory that he did that because he was trying to obtain a position within the Trump administration.”...............Evidence presented at the trial has shown that Trump’s onetime campaign chief talked with Calk in 2016 about a potential job in the incoming administration. Jobs that were allegedly mentioned included Treasury secretary, Army secretary and secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Calk ultimately did not get a job in the Trump administration. https://www.americanbanker.com/news/ceo-calk-conspired-with-manafort-to-defraud-his-own-bank-prosecutors  Manafort's cooperation is a big, big deal.  He has to tell Mueller everything he knows and he's known Trump for a long, long time. https://www.justsecurity.org/46464/timeline-paul-manaforts-relationship-trump-world/  We do not know all the evidence that Mueller has.  We only know what he has shown us so far.  And now every American he has indicted has pleaded guilty and is cooperating.