Trump, Manafort, and the Company They Keep
(WorldNews Politics)

Washington Rick Gates is to political consultant Paul Manafort what Omarosa Manigault Newman is to President Donald Trump. Gates is the 46-year-old former right-hand man to Manafort, who, in exchange for a lesser sentence, testified against his former boss during the first jury trial resulting from Special Counsel Robert Mueller´s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Jury deliberations began Thursday morning. The multiple tax and bank fraud charges Manafort faces have nothing to do with his short tenure as Trump´s campaign chairman. Nor do they have anything to do with Gates´ work on the Trump...