EXCERPT:
WALLACE: “The next day, July 28th, Donald Trump’s then campaign manager Paul Manafort gets an urgent message from a man U.S. intelligence agencies, someone we’ve been talking about, say is a Russian agent, Konstantin Kilimnik, asking for a secret meeting. And at that secret meeting, that Russian agent proposes this deal Jim has written about, to hand the city of Mariupol to Putin allies. Now, why Mariupol? Well, you can see why. Right? On the map, because where Mariupol is and how it forms a potential land bridge for arms between occupied Crimea and war-torn Donbas. Between coded messages about Crimea and secret meetings with Russian spies, where they asked nicely for Trump to please give them the city of Mariupol, it is clear that Putin’s bloodlust for Ukraine and Trump’s for the White House were interconnected and intertwined from the very beginning.”