From its inception, two things about
special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation
were clear: first, the White House’s biggest concern was that Mueller
would follow the money; and second, Mueller is following the money.
It’s been seven months since Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
ordered Bob Mueller
to take over the FBI’s counterintelligence probe into possible links
between the Kremlin and people associated with the Trump campaign.
Trump’s lawyers have long said they expected the probe to stay focused
and end quickly. Instead, Mueller has assembled a team of prosecutors
with expertise in handling financial investigations and white-collar
crime, and obtained guilty pleas for crimes that weren’t committed
during the election year.
And, most importantly, he’s sent a
thinly veiled warning to the White House: No one’s finances are off
limits. If 2017 had the president’s inner circle sweating, 2018 could
feel like a sauna.
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The
charges against the former Trump campaign boss appear to have been only
an opening salvo in a legal barrage on the president’s confidants,
informed observers say.
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