Robert Mueller just made a move that signals that EVERYONE is going down
On the day that Special Counsel Robert Mueller began his criminal trial against Paul Manafort, he also made another series of separate moves that will receive far less attention, but represent the start of a pattern that may prove far more important. Mueller made a criminal referral involving a number of new people, signaling that in essence, everyone he encounters who committed any crime is going down.
Robert Mueller has referred the following people to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, after having investigated them as possible unregistered foreign agents: Tony Podesta, Vin Weber, and Greg Craig. Podesta is probably the only name that rings a bell, and that’s only because he’s the brother of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta. For that matter, two out of the three people on this list, as provided by CNN, are Democrats. But this is really good news if you’re rooting for everyone remotely involved in Trump-Russia to go down, and let me explain why.
There are a number of unknowns when it comes to these three individuals. We don’t know if they actually committed the crime in question. We don’t know if the SDNY will choose to charge or prosecute them. But what we do know is that Robert Mueller has set things up with these three fringe characters such that, if the evidence ends up being sufficient in the eyes of the SDNY, they will be criminally charged. This establishes a clear precedent that Mueller intends to take everyone down who violated any law.
This means that, yes, Mueller will in fact go after Trump-Russia players who have committed ancillary crimes like perjury, or conspiracy to commit obstruction, or lying to federal investigators. Remember when Jeff Sessions lied under oath during his confirmation hearing? Remember those half a dozen Donald Trump advisers who were in the room when he was plotting how to mislead investigators? We can now expect that everyone will be charged for every crime, big or small, central or ancillary. The guilty are all going down.
