So, I am running down a bit of a rabbit hole. Someone put operatives inside of President Trump's campaign. To this, we have to look at who brought Page onboard. That was Manafort, as I understand.

This leads to where Manafort came from, as well as Manafort's ties. For this, I am going to rely on "competitor" research. Not everyone who thought Trump was compromised by Russia was a deep state operative. Plenty on the left were, effectively, building the case for collusion not understanding it was an entrapment scenario.

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/29/581478324/paul-manafort-joined-the-trump-campaign-in-a-state-of-despair-and-desperation

>> There's a long history that Manafort has with Trump, but it's not a close or tight history. Manafort's firm had done some work for Donald Trump because his partner Roger Stone had a close, personal relationship with Donald Trump that extended back decades. Manafort had a pied-a-terre in Trump Tower, so he would occasionally run into Trump and make small talk with him.

Roger Stone

>> And the source of his money was coming from Ukrainian oligarchs who couldn't really trace the source of their own money through - in legitimate sorts of ways. So the money would flow to him to these tax havens, and it would sit there. And he would bring it back to the United States through loopholes in the law. So he would be able to move that money back in the United States in order to buy suits or to buy rugs when he was able to find dealers who would be cooperative with him.

>> But in 2014, after the revolution in Ukraine, the FBI started to scrutinize money that was coming in through Ukrainian oligarchs, and it started to scrutinize Paul Manafort's own money. And he was interviewed by the FBI in the summer of 2014. Now, I don't think it's a coincidence that right after that interview, he stopped transferring money from Cyprus back to the United States because he was worried about accessing that money and worried about what it might mean for him in terms of legal jeopardy. And so his finances, which once came through this incredibly intricate system that he built up, were suddenly imperiled. He couldn't access all that money that he had abroad.

Depariska

>>And so the question really hovering over Paul Manafort and his associate Rick Gates is, will one of them somehow flip? Will they turn state's witness in order to provide information that could help capture some sort of larger trophy for Robert Mueller?

>>GROSS: Well, there have been - there has been speculation that Rick Gates himself, Manafort's former business partner, is going to flip.

>>FOER: Right. And you have to say, somebody like Rick Gates is extremely vulnerable, that the case against him - on paper, at least - seems very strong. He is not a guy who has deep resources, and if he's imperiled, he's going to want to try to save himself. And so it would make eminent sense for Robert Mueller to pursue a strategy like that.

Gates.

Then we get to this interesting tidbit:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7443851/oleg-deripaska-new-york-mansion-seized-us-abramovich-wife-children/

>> However, Deripaska has arranged to have the children and ex-wife of his business partner Abramovich to live in the sprawling New York property, The Post has learned.

>>The Chelsea owner, 51, recently transferred £71million worth of property to his ex-wife, Dasha Zhukova, 37,  a magazine editor who listed her current address as 11 East 64th St., according to property records.

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>>One of Zhukova’s good friends is senior adviser to the US President Ivanka Trump. The two are so close that Zhukova and Abramovich often travelled and socialised with Trump and her husband, presidential son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner.

The problem is that Manafort was taken off of the campaign after some publications. Someone, also, was likely to have internally recommended Manafort. It makes sense that Depariska would be looking to leverage what he could to get sanctions relaxed. Manafort is the obvious choice to be a vehicle. …. But then why would he sabotage the campaign in this sequence?

Manafort was, himself being set up, and Depariska was just doing what he do when he do what he do.