ing to deliver in person a
peace plan for Ukraine that Manafort acknowledged to the Special Counsel&#x2019;s Office
was a ”backdoor” way for Russia to control part of eastern Ukraine; both men
believed the plan would require candidate Trump&#x2019;s assent to succeed (were he to be
elected President). They also discussed the status of the Trump Campaign and
Manafort&#x2019;s strategy for winning Democratic votes in Midwestern states. Months
before that meeting, Manafort had caused internal polling data 