The next day, Manafort emailed Kilimnik to scheme how to use his Trump role as a path to recovering his financial equilibrium. In documents turned over to Congress and Mueller and previously described to The Post, Manafort and Kilimnik exchanged gleeful emails about the positive press Manafort was receiving because of his new Trump role. In one, Manafort wrote to ask whether the "OVD operation" had seen the articles, an apparent reference to Deripaska, adding, "How do we use to get whole?"