New evidence says Robert Mueller is even further ahead of everyone than we all thought
For the first several months after he was appointed, Special Counsel Robert Mueller was working under such secrecy that it was nearly impossible to find any evidence for gauging his progress. In recent weeks, as the indictments and arrests have begun flying, it’s become clear that Mueller has been well ahead of the media and the public all along. Now we have new evidence which reveals he’s even further ahead than we thought.
On Thursday evening the Wall Street Journal was the first to report that Mueller had sent a subpoena to the Donald Trump campaign which demanded that certain documents be turned over (link). This represents a fundamental shift in the investigation. Up to now, Trump and his campaign have been voluntarily turning over whatever documents Mueller requested, in the hope of avoiding confrontation, because they figured the documents in question were harmless. The subpoena means that Mueller’s requests have now reached the stage of asking for severely damaging documents, prompting Trump’s people to freeze up instead of cooperating. The real story here may be the timing.
The WSJ is the first to report the subpoena story, but it’s reporting that the subpoena was sent around a month ago. This serves as the latest reminder that Robert Mueller is not only way ahead of us all, he’s managing to work so discreetly that it can take this long just for us all to find out what he’s done.
This comes after Robert Mueller managed to raid Paul Manafort’s home several weeks before it became public. He also arrested Trump adviser George Papadopoulos four months before anyone knew about it, and in that instance it only became public because Mueller strategically chose to make it public. So while the subpoena news means that Mueller is much further along with his probe than we all thought, even this new subpoena news is actually old news – and we have no idea what else he’s been hiding up his sleeve.
