New details from Mueller Report

YOU THOUGHT THE MUELLER REPORT WAS OVER, didn’t you? Well, yesterday, BuzzFeed’s Jason Leopold -- a level 19 FOIA ninja -- and his colleagues got their hands on detailed summaries of the interviews three Trump aides gave to the FBI, known as “302 reports,” along with other documents. And while they don’t appreciably change our understanding of the Russiagate scandal, they do add a layer of texture to what we already knew. The memos, via BuzzFeed

Some key nuggets:

-- PAUL MANAFORT pushed the false idea that Ukraine, not Russia, had hacked the DNC emails. And even after his firing, he was still in touch with top campaign officials up to Election Day, though campaign ‘CEO’ Steve Bannon warned in an email to Jared Kushner: “We need to avoid this guy like the plague.” More from WaPo’s Roz Helderman and Spencer Hsu

-- TRUMP asked aides to get Hillary Clinton’s ‘missing’ emails. At one point, former Manafort deputy Rick Gates said, Michael Flynn said he’d use his contacts in the intelligence world to get them. This was all in the Mueller report, but seeing it laid out by Gates is striking.

-- BANNON told the FBI that Kushner and Ivanka Trump vacationed in Croatia during the campaign with an unnamed Russian billionaire, and that he asked them to return home so that Kushner could fire Manafort.

KEEP IN MIND, too, that the trial of longtime Trump aide ROGER STONE begins on Tuesday. Many of the redactions in the Mueller report were meant to protect his ongoing case.

Read more:

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2019/11/03/the-mueller-reports-long-tail-487575