Here’s an excerpt from a Yahoo News piece published earlier today:
As described by sources familiar with various aspects of the investigation, the Mueller probe is fast approaching a critical crossroads. The president’s lawyers, Ty Cobb and John Dowd, are pressing Mueller to wind down the investigation and exonerate their client, which they have assured the president will happen by early next year.
But the sources familiar with the probe say that such a rapid conclusion is — as one put it — “fanciful.” Mueller and his team, they say, are pursuing new leads, interrogating new witnesses and collecting a mountain of new evidence, including subpoenaed bank records and thousands of emails from the campaign and the Trump transition.
In just the last few weeks, his prosecutors have begun questioning Republican National Committee staffers about the party digital operation that worked with the Trump campaign to target voters in key swing states. They are seeking to determine if the joint effort was related to the activities of Russian trolls and bots aimed at influencing the American electorate, according to two of the sources.
In what is potentially another ominous sign for the White House, the lawyer for Jared Kushner, the president’s son in law and senior adviser who was in charge of the campaign’s digital operation, recently began searching for a crisis public relations firm to handle press inquiries — a step frequently taken by people who believe they may be facing criminal charges. (Kushner has denied all wrongdoing, and his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, has said he is cooperating with the Mueller investigation.)
If this is accurate, I hope it also means the investigators are looking into House and Senate campaign shenanigans too. We know Rep. Brian Mast’s campaign consultant admitted working with a hacker the intelligence services identify as a Russian agent to target ad buys. The NYT ran a story about a year ago on other House races that were targeted, but the issue has received almost no attention since then.
Given that Trump refuses to hold Russia accountable for the 2016 meddling and is actively undermining the FBI’s investigation, we’ll be sitting ducks next year — unless the investigation turns up some bombshells on the congressional side that are more difficult to shove down the memory hole. The Trump campaign is the center ring in the circus, but it’s only one of three.
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