InvestmentsTop Global NewsMarketsReal Estate US Senate committee concludes Russia used Manafort, WikiLeaks to boost Trump in 2016 By financialnews_rlv83x - August 18, 2020 0 129 Russia used Republican political operative Paul Manafort and the WikiLeaks website to try to help now-U.S. President Donald Trump win the 2016 election, a Republican-led Senate committee said in its final review of the matter on Tuesday.