Cyprus, A Former Press Secretary, And The Rnc: We Now Know More About Manafort's Trump Tower Notes

Thomson Reuters Notes taken by President Donald Trump's campaign chairman during a meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016 with a Russian lawyer and Russian lobbyist were described in a transcript released by Congress earlier this week. The notes reference Cyprus, the RNC, and Juleanna Glover — a press secretary for former Vice President Dick Cheney who has worked with the anti-corruption activist Bill Browder. Manafort gave his notes, which he took on his iPhone, to the Senate Intelligence Committee last July. Contemporaneous notes taken by President Donald Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort at a meeting with a Russian lawyer and lobbyist at Trump Tower during the election reference Cyprus, "active sponsors of RNC," and "Russian adoptions by American families," according to an interview transcript released by Congress earlier this week. Senate Judiciary Committee investigators showed the notes to Glenn Simpson, the cofounder of the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, and asked him whether he recognized any of the terms or phrases Manafort wrote down during the June 9 meeting and later provided to congressional investigators. The notes mentioned "active sponsors of RNC" and referenced Juleanna Glover, a political strategist and lobbyist who served as Dick Cheney's press secretary during the Iraq war, according to the transcript.