Rick Gates, deputy Trump campaign manager, gets 45 days in jail

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Rick Gates, one of the most significant former Trump campaign advisers who flipped on President Donald Trump in the Mueller investigation, was sentenced to 45 days in jail and three years probation by a federal judge Tuesday morning.

Gates, a longtime deputy to 2016 Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort who shared searing details about Trump's efforts in 2016 with special counsel Robert Mueller, admitted to helping Manafort conceal $75 million in foreign bank accounts from their years of Ukraine lobbying work.

He agreed to plead guilty to related charges of conspiracy and lying to investigators in February 2018. He also signed up to cooperate, giving Mueller's team key insights into Manafort and Trump's actions in 2016 during the height of the Russia investigations.

"When people don't have the facts, democracy fails to work," [Judge] Jackson said. The judge said she believed that Gates was motivated by greed, and rejected one letter of support that suggested politics was a factor.

"Politics don't corrupt people, people corrupt politics," she added.

But the judge said Gates' significant cooperation was important to consider as well for the role it played in the investigation of Russian interference and the Trump campaign.

"Gates' information alone warranted, indeed demanded, further investigation" for the sake of national security and the integrity of elections, Jackson observed.

 

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"Politics don't corrupt people, people corrupt politics," she added.

QFT

 

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"When people don't have the facts, democracy fails to work," [Judge] Jackson said."

Another QFT.

 

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GOSSIP, GOSSIP, GOSSIP..... SLANDER, SLANDER, SLANDER.....

THE ABOVE QUALIFIES AS SUCH. NOT POST #4. THAT POSTED WHILE I WAS RESPONDING.

 

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GOSSIP, GOSSIP, GOSSIP..... SLANDER, SLANDER, SLANDER.....

THE ABOVE QUALIFIES AS SUCH.

WHAT EXACTLY QUALIFIES AS GOSSIP OR SLANDER? LOL. ASKING IN ALL-CAPS ON ACCOUNT OF HOW APPARENTLY YOU FEEL THAT IS NECESSARY?

 

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GOSSIP, GOSSIP, GOSSIP..... SLANDER, SLANDER, SLANDER.....

THE ABOVE QUALIFIES AS SUCH. NOT POST #4. THAT POSTED WHILE I WAS RESPONDING.

HOW DOES THE QUOTE ABOVE QUALIFY AS GOSSIP OR SLANDER WHEN IT'S A DIRECT, UNEDITED QUOTE FROM THE JUDGE QUOTED IN THE OP OF THIS THREAD? Does writing in all caps somehow magically transform it into gossip and slander???