There’s something going on with Robert Mueller and Roger Stone
The worst kept secret in the Trump-Russia investigation is that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has a long-running and wide-ranging grand jury going against Donald Trump’s oldest friend Roger Stone. For quite awhile now, we’ve all been waiting for Mueller to finish slogging through his numerous witnesses and go ahead and indict and arrest Stone. Even Stone has seemed to know it’s coming eventually, based on his Instagram screeds. But now something does indeed appear to be afoot.
This afternoon the Wall Street Journal published a lengthy new article highlighting Robert Mueller’s investigative efforts into Roger Stone, who gets mentioned a whopping nineteen times. Here’s the kicker: there’s really nothing new in this article. We already know all of these details because they’ve been leaking out piecemeal. Yet the WSJ is suddenly making a point of giving twenty paragraphs of column space to Mueller and Stone today. This kind of thing tends not to be a coincidence.
We’ve seen major news outlets do this kind of thing shortly before the investigative target in question has gotten busted. It’s fair to ask if the WSJ may have been tipped off that Robert Mueller is about to move on Roger Stone, and this article is a matter of getting out ahead of it. Might Mueller actually indict and arrest Roger Stone before the midterms? We’ll see. But lengthy rehash profiles like this WSJ article don’t come out of nowhere. There’s something going on here with Robert Mueller and Roger Stone.
