Pretty sure this is Manafort and Stone. Spicer called them "hangers-on around the campaign." The Trump side eventually had to send them cease-and-desist letters to make them stop telling people they were connected to the campaign. I think this occurred sometime in the Summer of 2016. At a minimum, they were clearly formally out at least by Aug 2016.
What they dont want you to know is that both the Russians and the Ukrainians were throwing a lot of money around DC under the Obama Admin. Back then, Obama was actively engaged trying to overthrow the elected Govt of the Ukraine (isnt it ironic?) and was spending tens of millions of US taxpayer funds on this effort. Which then blew up in Obama's face -- ceding great chunks of the Ukraine to Russia (yet they keep telling us he was a genius). Anyway, since the Dems had the political power in DC at the time, they got most of the cash being tossed about.
Manafort's connections to the Ukraine/Russia were much older in time but not much different than what the Dems were doing much more recently -- such as -- Bill Clinton ($500k for one speech in ref to Uranium One + Russian money into the Clinton Foundation), John Podesta (paid to sit on board of Joule Unlimited which was founded by Putin and which got $35M from a Putin-linked Russian government fund -- all of which Podesta failed to fully disclose on fed forms as Hill's chairman), his brother and big time Dem fundraiser Tony Podesta (actually repped Uranium One as well as Russia’s largest bank Sberbank, which he broke US law by failing to disclose), Lanny Davis (took cash from Russians), John Conyers (took cash from Russians), Alexandra Chalupa ($412k durectly from the UKR Govt to help Hillary beat Trump -- this is the person credited with pimping the Manafort story as they were on opposite side of the Ukraine issue), and former Dem Senator John Breaux (who reps for Gazprombank Bank which is on Treasury's no-go list). The list is goes on from here.
And, of course, as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton infamously approved the deal that gave Russia one-fifth of the United States' total uranium reserves. A legitimate question that has never been fully answered is why did Hillary agree to this? The answer seems to be that she did it for money. I've never seen a better answer.
If you really want to dig into Hillary's Russian/Ukr ties http://www.g-a-i.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Report-Skolkvovo-08012016.pdf
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