Rick Gates, then a campaign aide to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in 2016. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press)Over the past two decades, Rick Gates’s relationship to Paul Manafort has been described in many ways. [Manafort is gone, but his business associate remains a key part of Trump’s operation]The Trump campaignWhen Paul Manafort was named Trump’s campaign manager, Gates became his deputy. Gates managed the mundane, day-to-day operations of the campaign, according to the Times. President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Manafort's former business associate Rick Gates and Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos have all been charged in Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation into Russian election interference.

Source: Washington Post October 30, 2017 20:14 UTC