Robert Mueller nails Donald Trump and his White House for criminally conspiring with Paul Manafort
Even as Donald Trump’s latest corrupt nominee William Barr was busy humiliating himself during his Senate confirmation hearings, while making clear that he was looking to find a way to magically prevent Robert Mueller from doing his job, Mueller was busy reminding everyone that it’s far too late to stop him.
Robert Mueller made a conveniently timed new court filing today which revealed that Paul Manafort was conspiring with Donald Trump’s White House to obstruct justice as recently the middle of 2018, and that Manafort then lied about it to Mueller. At this point any additional criminal charges against Manafort aren’t particularly relevant, as he’s now all but guaranteed to spend the rest of his life in prison. But this does tell us something crucial about Trump’s White House advisers.
First, Mueller revealed in his filing that he has incriminating text messages between Manafort and an unnamed Trump White House adviser. This implies that Mueller has all of Manafort’s illegal communications with the Trump White House. No doubt, the unnamed adviser is going to be indicted for obstruction of justice. But the real upshot here is that everyone in the Trump administration who was conspiring with Manafort was just put on notice that they’d better hurry up and cut a plea deal and flip on Trump.
The timing of Robert Mueller’s filing today tells us that he’s sending a message to everyone involved that he’s way too far down the road of exposing Donald Trump’s crimes to be derailed by a last minute panic move like replacing Jeff Sessions with William Barr. That might have worked a year ago, when Mueller was still a long way from the finish line. But Mueller has Trump nailed now, and Trump’s tepid and belated reactionary moves won’t save him.
