Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort (L) and his wife Kathleen arrive at the Prettyman Federal Courthouse Jan. 16, in Washington, DC.

Paul Manafort isn’t on trial for his Russian connections in the context of working to get Trump elected. Or is he?

In many ways, Trump’s former campaign chairman is squarely in the crosshairs of the Russia-Trump collusion investigation. His brief tenure as the head of Trump’s campaign overlapped with concerns about Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, he’s got high-level connections to Russia in his own right, and he’s a key link to the president as one of the highest-ranking Trump campaign officials ensnared in the investigation.

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