Robert Mueller’s team met with and sought information from one of President Trump’s campaign pollsters last year.
CNN reporters say they saw pollster Tony Fabrizio, a former business associate of Trump campaign adviser Paul Manafort, leaving the special counsel’s office in February 2018 and have confirmed that he was meeting with Mueller’s team.
Manafort’s attorneys revealed earlier this week that Mueller was interested in gaining insight into how he shared polling data.
Fabrizio previously worked with Manafort in relation to his lobbying work in Ukraine and in the spring of 2016 became Trump’s head pollster.
In failing to properly redact a court filing this week as part of Mueller’s Russia investigation, Manafort’s defense team revealed that he shared polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian-Ukrainian political consultant with links to Russian intelligence.
The New York Times reported Wednesday that Manafort also directed then-deputy Trump campaign manager Rick Gates to provide the polling data to Ukrainian oligarchs Serhiy Lyovochkin and Rinat Akhmetov.
