**Bombshell Mueller Court Filing Shows Rick Gates Was Knowingly In Contact With A Kremlin Spy**

[workinclasszero]

Bombshell Mueller Court Filing Shows Rick Gates Was Knowingly In Contact With A Kremlin Spy
By David Gilbert Mar 28, 2018

Donald Trump’s deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates was in direct communication with a person he knew was a Russian spy in the weeks ahead of the 2016 election, according to court documents filed by special counsel Robert Mueller Tuesday.

The documents reveal Gates was in contact with a former officer in Russian military intelligence in the months leading up to Trump’s win.

Gates was “directly communicating in September and October 2016” with an unidentified person who “has ties to a Russian intelligence service and had such ties in 2016,” the filing says.

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/mbxgda/mueller-court-filing-rick-gates-trump-russia

[chuckstevens]

1. Fox News: Lots of campaigns do this. Big Nothing Burger!

And so many morons who grew up in the Cold War will say, "That's Right!" 🤤🤤🤤🤤

[workinclasszero]

2. Right

Had that been President Hillary Clinton conspiring with Russian spies before the election, she would be halfway impeached by now.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. RW hardcore nutjob line goes only collusion was Hillary w Russians via Mueller re Uranium 1. :eyes:

[mjvpi]

24. .....in Benghazi

[ollie10]

23. I'd say it would already have been sent to the Senate for trial

[C Moon]

12. Let's clarify that, Fox: lots of GOP campaigns. (not directed at you, chuckstevens)

[procon]

3. "No collusion! No collusion! No collusion!" nt

[meow2u3]

7. "No collusion! No collusion! No obstruction" my pig's eye

It's not just "collusion", it's a frickin' conspiracy!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. RWNJs call it a slow coup to remove a properly elected President. We know better. . . nt

[brush]

25. Not to mention treason. And if Gates knew he was a Russian spy, Manafort and trump knew.

[pnwmom]

4. Paul Manafort, too. Konstantin Kilimnik was "manager of Manaforts lobbying office in Kiev." AND,

https://www.propublica.org/article/who-is-the-russian-lobbyist-who-met-with-donald-trump-jr

Manafort, who worked for the pro-Russian party in Ukraine before running Trump’s campaign, had an employee in Kiev named Konstantin Kilimnik who U.S. and Ukrainian authorities have suspected of having ties to Russian intelligence, according to Politico. Kilimnik served in the Russian army and learned English at a school that experts say often trains spies. Kilimnik denied being a spy to The Washington Post. Manafort had dinner with Kilimnik last August in New York, just before he was forced out of the Trump campaign amid growing questions about his work in the Ukraine, the Post reported.

[RDANGELO]

5. It's a good bet that the general public will never know how the government knows this

because it involves sources and methods of the intelligence community. You have the surrogates of Trump saying that it is all conspiracy against him, and Mueller saying this is the evidence that we have. The public will have to choose who to believe. When Trump gets put on trial, it will probably not be public.

[pnwmom]

6. Rick Gates is already a cooperating witness. He and Manafort were meeting

with a member of Russian intelligence during the campaign, and Gates told the Dutch lawyer that the Russian was in intelligence.

All this is already public. More will certainly come out.

[workinclasszero]

8. Comrade Trump

must be sweating, knowing this guy is spilling his guts to Mueller!

[RDANGELO]

9. Ok. Gates may have been forced to reveal it in the first place because he was confronted with the

evidence from the intelligence community. In any event the point I am making is that there is probably going to be evidence that is not going to be publicly disseminated.

[pnwmom]

27. They probably know some facts that won't come out. But they can use all their intelligence

and all the shared intelligence of our allies, as a map and a guide. With that guide, they can get the testimony of DT people -- who can then be the witnesses against DT and his campaign, allowing other sources to be protected.

[erronis]

19. Rhetorically (as most are): Will a cooperating witness spill ALL of his/her beans?

There are different categories of lies and truth.

Pretty Hope Hicks only told little white ones (hah!)
The Huckster-Daughter tells purple ones every time she talks.
Trump we don't even bother listening to what spills out of his orifices.
etc.

Will Gates hold onto some deep secrets that might get him killed if revealed? I don't know the techniques that interrogators use within the US (I do know some of what the US did to people they considered sub-human/etc.).

[pnwmom]

28. Gates knows that if he doesn't -- and Mueller happens to already have the info

from another source -- the plea deal is OFF. Mueller gets to accept the guilty plea, plus is free to prosecute him on all the charges that he was holding back on. And Mueller can use Gates's own testimony against him.

[Botany]

10. nothing to see here, move on ..... nothing to see here, move on

[C Moon]

11. Ouch!!!

[getagrip_already]

13. coffee boy, not directly involved in campaign, didn't even know trump.......

aha. ok.

(sarcasm)

[Cicada]

14. Manafort worked for free for Trump but got secret pay probably from Russia

Deposits during the campaign went into Manafort’s secret accounts including in Cyprus banks, banks used to launder Russian money into the West. So Manafort worked for free for Trump at the same time He got big bucks from the tooth fairy.

[Generic Brad]

20. Maybe Michael Cohn paid him out of the goodness of his heart

He seems to enjoy paying people for Trump related activities and obstruction out of his own pocket.

[Cicada]

29. You made me laugh out loud

[Stuart G]

15. No collusion, No collusion, No collusion...Russian Spy, Russian Spy, Russian Spy...

Nothing to look at here: except....Collusion with a Russian Spy before election???


Gates was “directly communicating in September and October 2016”

but...but...but...Trump knew nothing...just like Sgt Schultz....but wait.........Sgt Schultz...knew everything...?

[poboy2]

16. r'd

[podex101]

21. I want to know what the Russians have!!!!

Why is the president acting like he was bought to be a stooge?

[Skittles]

30. what is strange is

it is hard to imagine what they could have that would make us think less of Trump than we already do

[Adrahil]

22. This is a Big Fuckin' Deal. NT

[Doodley]

26. Isn't it just possible that everyone in Team Trump just happens to love Russians?

And in Trumps case, Russian prostitutes?