Yet another Donald Trump campaign adviser under federal criminal investigation
The list of Donald Trump political advisers and underlings who have ended up criminally indicted is perhaps too lengthy to recite from memory. Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Rick Gates, Michael Cohen, George Papadopoulos, Elliott Broidy, Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman, Ken Kurson, and Steve Bannon are just the headliners.
Now yet another Trump political adviser is under federal criminal investigation. The Wall Street Journal says that the Feds are targeting former Trump campaign adviser Barry Bennett for allegedly acting as an unregistered agent of the government of Qatar. We’re detecting a pattern here, because just last month, Trump campaign adviser Tom Barrack was arrested for being an unregistered agent of another Middle Eastern government, that being United Arab Emirates.
As always ends up being the case, this isn’t so much about whether Barry Bennett – a guy you’ve probably never heard of to begin with – goes to prison. It’s a question of whether the Feds can push Bennett into cutting a plea deal and cooperating against the bigger fish in Trump world. These criminal probes all have a habit of leading back to Donald Trump himself, and anyone willing and able to give up the dirt on him is surely looking at significant leniency from the Feds.
