I have to say that the kilimnik angle is one of my favorites. It has all facets of this charade. It is perfect for the media to continue to keep you guys stirred up. They get to throw out half truths and out of context innuendo and it is happily gobbled up.
The accusations:
1) Gates and Manafort talked to/emailed a "russian with suspected ties to russian intelligence" in 2016.
Shocking that they would communicate with someone that they have worked with for over 11 years and was actively trying to help them collect money from russians for work done years ago. Especially since neither Gates nor Manafort speak russian and Kili is a russian linguist. Very nefarious.
2) Kili is a russian agent. Well as Madow/Hugo pointed out he did go to school for a while at a russian military school. Of course neither points out that he was only 17 at the time and he left when he was 20 when the USSR collapsed. He never worked for any govt agency.
But lets assume this is the guy that will tie trump to russia and the grand conspiracy. A guy that was planted with Manafort 11 years ago so that when trump ran for potus 10 years later they could get Manafort hired as campaign chairman and then, when Manafort left the campaign, the spy was able to continue his work through Gates (because of course gates and Manafort both were in on the conspiracy ((which makes perfect sense that Mueller let a confirmed conspiracy member off with little or no charges))) and use Gates to deliver the details of the conspiracy to trump.
And then, to continue the mastery of this spy plant, even though the russians/putin knew that they had their man Kili inside working trump, they decided to have Kisilyak try to get close to trump through sessions, and then to get flynn corrupted, and then went to Papa through a London professor to get close, and then used carter page to get the message to trump about the conspiracy, and then used the russian lawyer to get the details of the conspiracy to trump, and then used Kushner to get the details to trump and, simultaneously, set up a back channel for russia, and then set up a shadowy meeting in the Seychelles to get Eric Prince in on the conspiracy and the back channel. Masterful work in deception. And to top it all off, they kept trump under their thumb with the obvious blackmail stuff that the russian mob has on him. They have been busy.