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Former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort quit Trumps campaignin Augustunder a cloud of suspicion, but it now appears that more than potential investigations may have been behind his departure. Manafortwas also being strong-armed by someone with inside knowledge ofunder-the-tablepayments and a secret meeting between Donald Trump and a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician.

The undated communications, which are allegedly from the iPhone of Manaforts daughter, include a text that appears to come from a Ukrainian parliamentarian named Serhiy Leshchenko, seeking to reach her father, in which he claims to have politically damaging information about both Manafort and Trump.

Attached to the text is a note to Paul Manafort referring to bulletproof evidence related to Manaforts financial arrangement with Ukraines former president, the pro-Russian strongman Viktor Yanukovych, as well as an alleged 2012 meeting between Trump and a close Yanukovych associate named Serhiy Tulub.

Leshchenko, a former investigative journalist,has claimed to have no connection to the texts, but whatever their source, the authorseemedto have advance knowledge of the investigation launched by Ukrainian officials into more than$12 million in off the books payments supposedly funneled to Manafort. These payments may have continued while Manafort was employed by Trump.

As for the meeting between Trump and Tulub

The White House did not respond to a question about whether Trump had met with Tulub, a hunting buddy of Yanukovychs who had served as part of government when Yanukovych was prime minister.

Serhiy Tulub is the former coal industry minister and head of the Cherkasy Regional State Administration, and a close associate of Yanukovych. Its unclear what reason he would have had for meeting with Donald Trump.

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