By Caitlin Oprysko
POLITICO
January 20, 2019
Paul Manafort’s decision to give Trump campaign polling data to Ukrainian associates with ties to Russian intelligence was “bad judgment” but not criminal and not as significant as some are making it out to be, the president’s lawyer said Sunday.
Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the accidental revelation by Manafort’s attorneys that he shared polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, who worked with Manafort as a political consultant in the Ukraine, was being overblown by people eager to accuse the Trump campaign of colluding with Russia to swing the 2016 election in the president’s favor.