In June 2016 , when Donald Trump promoted Manafort to the post of campaign manager , Gates began to work for the campaign as Manafort 's deputy handling the day-to-day activities of the campaign including taking responsibility for apparent plagiarism in Melania Trump 's speech at the Republican National Convention . Gates stayed on as number two in the campaign under Steve Bannon after Manafort was forced out , and then went to work as deputy chairman of the Donald Trump Inaugural Committee . He helped to form a pro-Trump nonprofit group called America First Policies but was removed from the organization after his involvement with Manafort 's overseas ventures was exposed
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Rick Gates (political consultant)