Is Rick Gates about to become a cooperating witness ?

[Straw Man]

Just got a bunch of new lawyers today
said lawyers have been seen spending a lot of time in Mueller's office

What's the word over at Fox and Friends?

[lilhawk1]

Its pretty clear he is cooperating now.  Poor Donnie, things are looking pretty bleak for him.  His former lawyer is being questioned by Mueller soon as well.  Donnie sure is nervous and panicking for being such an innocent man with nothing to hide isn't he? 

[chaos]

Yes, smashing his phones, deleting emails and paying people to bleach his laptops as we type!!

[Straw Man]

Rick Gates is reportedly close to becoming Mueller’s third cooperating ex-Trump aide

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is close to flipping another former Trump staffer.

Rick Gates — Paul Manafort’s longtime junior business partner, and a 2016 Trump campaign staffer — is “finalizing” a plea deal in which he’d cooperate with the Mueller investigation, CNN’s Katelyn Polantz and Sara Murray report. Gates has been in negotiations with Mueller’s team about cooperating for over a month, their report says, citing sources familiar with the case.

Back in October, Mueller’s team indicted Gates and Manafort on a combined 12 counts that mostly focused on alleged money laundering, failure to disclose financial assets, and false statements regarding their work for the government of Ukraine and a Russia-affiliated Ukrainian political party — matters that didn’t have anything specific to do with Russian interference in the 2016 campaign. (Both pleaded not guilty.)

But apparently, Mueller didn’t intend to stop there. The special counsel’s team had prepared superseding indictments that would add to or replace the original charges against both Manafort and Gates, per an earlier CNN report. Facing an expensive legal defense with no end in sight, Gates signed a new lawyer who has been working on cutting him a plea deal.

The biggest question, though, is whether Gates’s possible flip is mainly bad news for Paul Manafort concerning those lobbying and money laundering charges ... or whether it has even bigger implications for the investigation into Russian interference as a whole, and into President Trump specifically.

Because if Manafort were to know of anything that could implicate Trump in connection with Russia, it seems quite plausible Gates would know it too.

https://www.vox.com/2018/2/15/16955292/rick-gates-plea-deal

[chaos]

Muellers investigation should be null and void. He's heavily tied to the Clintons and should be under investigation himself for his role in colluding with killary in selling and delivering uranium to Russia.

[Agnostic007]

Muellers investigation should be null and void. He's heavily tied to the Clintons and should be under investigation himself for his role in colluding with killary in selling and delivering uranium to Russia.

It appears the FOX playbook is working.

[Straw Man]

just heard that Steve Bannon spent a lot of time talking to Mueller this week

[LittleJ]

Muellers investigation should be null and void. He's heavily tied to the Clintons and should be under investigation himself for his role in colluding with killary in selling and delivering uranium to Russia.

Haha oh brother. More Faux bullshyt! Trump is going down