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What’s Robert Mueller’s next big move? Here are 9 possibilities.
Recent reports suggest intriguing possibilities for where the investigation is going.
Robert Mueller’s investigation could go in a lot of different directions
1) The email hacking and leaks:
The theft of John Podesta’s, the DNC’s, and other political figures’ (mainly Democrats’) emails is a crime that we know happened in 2016. Mueller has reportedly taken charge of the investigation of this crime. And the Daily Beast recently wrote that investigators have identified a specific Russian intelligence officer behind “Guccifer 2.0,” a leading online persona in the hacks.
2) Trump’s business dealings in Russia and other countries:
In mid-March, the New York Times reported that Mueller had recently subpoenaed the Trump Organization for do ents “related to Russia and other topics he is investigating,” in the clearest sign yet that Trump’s business has come under Mueller’s scrutiny.
3) Russian oligarchs’ money flowing into politics:
An eyebrow-raising pair of reports from CNN and the New York Times earlier in April revealed that Mueller’s team has questioned at least two Russian oligarchs when they’ve visited the United States — and even seized and searched one’s electronic devices.
3) Russian oligarchs’ money flowing into politics:
An eyebrow-raising pair of reports from CNN and the New York Times earlier in April revealed that Mueller’s team has questioned at least two Russian oligarchs when they’ve visited the United States — and even seized and searched one’s electronic devices.
5) The Trump campaign’s digital operation:
Given the well-do ented Russian digital effort to boost Trump’s chances, there have long been broader questions about whether Trump’s digital operation collaborated in this effort in some way. However, when Mueller charged 13 Russian individuals and three Russian companies with crimes related to a propaganda effort designed to interfere with the 2016 campaign, he did not allege any “witting” participation from Trump’s team.
6) The Steele Dossier’s claims:
The major specific claims in Christopher Steele’s infamous do ent — that Trump is vulnerable to sexual blackmail by the Russian government, that the Trump campaign and Russia conspired together about the hacked DNC emails, that Carter Page was involved in collusion, and that Michael Cohen traveled to Prague to meet with Russians about paying hackers — still remain largely uncorroborated and heatedly denied by all parties.
7) Other potential charges against Paul Manafort:
Mueller has already charged Manafort with a combined 23 counts of conspiracy, money laundering, false statements, tax fraud, bank fraud, and other charges — but he may not be done with the former Trump campaign chair yet.
8) Jared Kushner’s business and foreign policy (and Russia):
There have long been questions about whether presidential son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner has inappropriately mixed the concerns of his family real estate business with his high-level foreign policy job.
9) The obstruction report/Trump interview:
Last but certainly not least, it’s long been known that Mueller has been investigating whether President Trump obstructed justice while in office — by discouraging an FBI investigation into Michael Flynn, by firing FBI director James Comey, by pressuring Attorney General Jeff Sessions not to recuse himself, by dictating a highly misleading story about Don Jr.’s Trump Tower meeting, and by floating pardons for witnesses.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/25/17274170/mueller-investigation-trump-russia
