Name: Rick Gates defends Trump against earthshaking potential October Surprise
Uploaded: 2020-10-24T19:55:27.000Z
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Now, Rick, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation led to the conviction of your boss, Paul Manafort for tax and bank fraud.

And you pled guilty to financial conspiracy to hide money earned lobbying for foreign governments.

Your testimony was key in the indictments of Manafort as well as Roger Stone.

You three were basically the rat Pack if they were literal rats.

And because of your cooperation, you received a lighter sentence of 45 weekend days in prison.

Wasn't your sentence excessive given you were simply achieving the American dream of serving the interests of Ukraine.

Well, look, the Mueller probe was absolutely useless.

Has caused $32 million of taxpayer's money.

It went on a little over two years, and so it was absolutely illegitimate.

Nailing your ass for a whole host of a legal was not useless.

Is it right that no one from the W N ba put their career on hold to liberate you from a cell you walked freely out of on Monday mornings?

Well, no, I don't think that's the case at all Were used as targets to get to the president.

And unfortunately, they didn't get to him because there was nothing there to get him on.

You should not be prosecuted if the cops are investigating a stolen pack of gum and in the process, discover you committed financial conspiracy against the United States of America.

When your book becomes a movie, do you want the same director from Mandela?

No, I think I'll look for somebody that z slightly more in tune with the American political scene and can hopefully, you know, keep the story to the true intent that it was written.

I'm sure Hollywood will find a director that gets you.

That place is full of money grubbing slime balls moving on last December, at your sense, saying you told the judge quote, I wish to express to this court that I accept complete responsibility for my actions that have led me here.

But recently you said that everyone involved in the probe should be pardoned.

Besides your desire to not be the only status craving hair dye spokesperson who came out of there with a record?

Well, I think there's a clear reason why everybody should be pardoned.

Hopefully, we'll be doing an investigation of the investigators, which I think the attorney general has already started doing and is continuing to Dio.

Yes, and I'm sure Bill Bar isn't just doing that to soothe Baby Trump's every Regeneron fueled whim now.

Rick Buzzfeed, news investigative journalist Jason Leopold and his colleagues obtained some of the special counsel's memos.

Among the discoveries was this correspondence between you and Manafort the day before you pleaded guilty.

Manafort told Gates that he had been on the phone with Trump's then lawyer, John Dowd.

When Trump apparently walked into the room with doubt and said, to Manafort words to the effect of stay strong, Manafort told Gates that Kushner had sent him emails of support.

Now, if you could go back to that fateful day, would you have done the right thing and lied your ass off in hopes of scoring a pardon?

Look, I did the right thing to do the right thing and whether, uh, you know Paul Manafort was suggesting those were statements that actually occurred or not.

And so that's exactly you know what I did?

I didn't look at, you know, a pardon back then, or anything related to any way that the president could shut this investigation down.

Always interesting when you ask someone about a crime.

And then out of nowhere, they rushed to deny a huge crime like shutting down the investigation.

So one of our investigative journalists, Rajat Mehta, wanted to ask you a question.

Unfortunately, he is on vacation in South America, in the rainforest.

But he said it was so important it was worth spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to send a news truck to him.

Now, what is your question for Rick Gates s?

They're telling me that Thanksgiving is coming up, and I was just wondering Rick to get a pardon.

Have you considered dressing up like a turkey?

I haven't done that yet That I think there are plenty of opportunities to do it the official way.

is it because you think the turkey is something else?

When the president pardons the turkey is on the day before Thanksgiving.

Can you describe what turkey is just to prove it?

Uh, what a turkey is is a bird that it sounds like you don't know it.

Jeffrey Toobin, uh, stuff with the with Wang.

Do you know anything about that thing about that?

My sources are telling me you were thinking of doing like, a one upping kind of thing.

Let's talk about your relationship with the president.

Here he is at a Florida rally where he meant to say, Matt Gates, there was my people that caught them.

It's always a bummer when you get your pathetic sick of fans mixed up.

I think someone's got his 2016 deputy campaign manager on the brain while he's out with his 2020 campaign.

He's doing a great job on the campaign trail on.

I think he's gonna be able to pull it out.

It was great to have that call out, even if it was for Matt Gates, but it was It was nice to hear.

Now let's show President Trump that you have what it takes to serve as a campaign surrogate in a segment we call October surprise.

We're going to throw out a likely October surprise that could damage the president's campaign.