The reason it matters that Trump brought in Paul Manafort to work on his campaign again for 'free' this year is that in 2016, Manafort shared the campaign's strategy with his long-time business associate Konstantin Kilimnik, who ( according to the Treasury Department) is a 'known Russian Intelligence Services agent' who 'provided the Russian Intelligence Services with [that] sensitive information on polling and campaign strategy.'
The reason it matters that Manafort - as he did in 2016 - claims he has stepped aside from that 'free' job to find other ways to help Donald Trump is that he continued to coach the campaign even after he lost, projecting Trump and Russia's own voter fraud claims onto Hillary Clinton.
The reason it matters that - even as he threatens to abandon NATO much less Ukraine - Trump welcomed Manafort onto his campaign again is that both at the meeting where Trump's former campaign manager shared campaign strategy and for several years after, Manafort and Kilimnik kept talking about plans to carve up Ukraine.
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