News outlets are dramatically overstating what Rick Gates said about Manafort's theory that Ukraine was behind email hacks. It's completely and entirely possible that Manafort seeded that false theory w/ Trump, but Gates did not tell that to special counsel. Here's what he said: 
WaPo's headline is a sample of how that Gates passage is being inaccurately reported.
NYT's headline is not as dramatic, but still promotes the idea that Manafort was "pushing" the Ukraine theory. But Gates doesn't give any detail about who all Manafort was sharing this theory with, or how often he brought it up. Did he mention it once in passing, or more often?
