President Trump vs. Robert Mueller

Mueller's team has officially proposed dismissing charges against RICK GATES, following last week's guilty plea.
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Nixon sees "witch-hunt"

In October 2017, Gates was indicted by a federal grand jury and arrested on twelve criminal charges including conspiracy, money laundering, failure to register as an agent of a foreign power, and false statements.[76] The charges arose from his consulting work for the pro-Russian government in Ukraine and are unrelated to the Trump campaign.[77] Gates pleaded not guilty and was placed under house arrest.[78] On February 22, 2018, Gates was indicted on 38 federal charges including tax evasion, money laundering and fraud relating to their foreign lobbying before, during and after the 2016 campaign.[79] The following day, Gates plead guilty to making false statements to the FBI and conspiracy to defraud the United States and agreed to cooperate with Mueller investigation.[80] The second set of indictments were to stand pending Gates cooperation and assistance in the Mueller investigation.

If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
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Roger Stone, a flamboyant former adviser to President Trump, communicated directly with Wikileaks despite insisting otherwise, according to messages obtained by The Atlantic's Natasha Bertrand.

But private Twitter messages obtained by The Atlantic show Stone, a longtime political adviser to Mr. Trump, communicating privately with Wikileaks' Twitter account. In a direct message to the Wikileaks account on October 13th, 2016, Stone wrote: "Since I was all over national TV, cable and print defending wikileaks and assange against the claim that you are Russian agents and debunking the false charges of sexual assault as trumped up bs you may want to rexamine the strategy of attacking me- cordially R."

An hour later, Wikileaks replied. "We appreciate that. However, the false claims of association are being used by the democrats to undermine the impact of our publications. Don't go there if you don't want us to correct you."

Stone responded on October 15th. "Ha!" he wrote. "The more you 'correct' me the more people think you're lying. Your operation leaks like a sieve. You need to figure out who your friends are."

The next communication the day after Mr. Trump won the 2016 election. "Happy?" the Wikileaks account wrote. "We are now more free to communicate."

Before his testimony in September, Stone had bragged about his communications with Wikileaks, which published a trove of Democratic emails just days before the Democratic National Convention in July. In an August 2016 speech to the Southwest Broward Republican Organization, Stone said he had "communicated with Assange." Later that month, Stone said that he had talked with Assange "through an intermediary." A few days after that, Stone tweeted that Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta, will soon have his "time in the barrel."

Tensions had risen in the White House in recent weeks as chief of staff John Kelly aimed to crack down on access to highly classified information following domestic abuse allegations against former staff secretary Rob Porter. Hicks reportedly dated Porter.