Looks like Robert Mueller’s job just got easier
Yesterday was one of those days where there was ton of scandalous Trump news, but none of it was about the Trump-Russia scandal – unless you looked a little deeper. We saw the start of the Senate confirmation hearings for Donald Trump’s corrupt Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, as the Democrats kicked off their plans to derail the whole thing. We also saw the first excerpts from Bob Woodward’s new insider book about the Trump White House, and that’s where it looks like Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s job just got easier.
Woodward has been investigating and writing about U.S. Presidents for most his life, so he knows how to cover his bases. Not only did he release excerpts from his book, he also released a recording he made of a six minute phone conversation he had with Donald Trump. This recording helped justify why Woodward’s book doesn’t include an interview with Trump. It also includes something else: the revelation that Woodward recorded every conversation he had with every Trump associate. Why does this matter to Mueller?
Based on the excepts, Woodward’s book doesn’t appear to be a criminal expose, beyond exposing that Donald Trump is criminally insane. But with all the loose lips and backbiting that we’ve already seen out of Trump’s White House, and all the openly criminal behavior playing out in the administration, you can almost guarantee that in at least some of these interviews, Trump’s people have fingered each other for crimes.
If a guy like Bob Woodward has recordings of Donald Trump’s people incriminating each other out of spite, or accusing Trump himself of crimes in the hope of avoiding getting scapegoated, you can believe he’s already provided copies of those recordings to Robert Mueller. Based on everything we know about the Trump regime, there’s every reason to believe that Trump’s people have indeed confessed up a storm on these tapes.
