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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMueller's leaked 'hit list' may indicate he's treating Trump's team like a 'criminal enterprise'
A Grand Jury subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller's team reportedly targets the majority of Donald Trump's senior campaign team, including the president, and may indicate criminal wrongdoing within his innermost circle.
The subpoena, seen by and labelled a "hit list" by Axios, asks for all texts, letters, handwritten notes, or communications of any kind starting from November 1, 2015, between one unnamed witness and the following people:
Carter Page, a former investment banker and campaign foreign policy adviser.
Corey Lewandowski, a former Trump campaign manager.
Hope Hicks, Trump's longtime, now ex-communications director.
Keith Schiller, Trump's former bodyguard and confidante.
Michael Cohen, the longtime personal attorney for Trump.
Paul Manafort, Trump's already indicted former campaign chairman.
Rick Gates, the former deputy chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign who is now cooperating with Mueller.
Roger Stone, a former adviser to Trump who left the campaign before November 1, 2015, but has admitted to having contact with Wikileaks, the organization that leaked hacked emails from the Democratic National Convention.
Steve Bannon, former White House and Trump campaign strategist.
And, finally, Donald J. Trump, the man himself, makes the list.
Importantly, the subpoena's calls for communications that began after November 1, 2015, nearly five months after Trump announced his candidacy.
In response to the report, Ned Price, a former CIA official who advised Barack Obama and resigned from the agency rather than work for Trump's administration, tweeted that the subpeona indicated "Mueller is treating it like a criminal enterprise."
https://amp.businessinsider.com/muellers-hit-list-targets-trump-may-indicate-criminal-enterprise-2018-3
Botany
(70,449 posts)My guesses are
Flynn or Rudy G or Eric Prince or the Mercers
"Mueller is treating it like a criminal enterprise."
orangecrush
(19,434 posts)Mueller is treating it exactly like what it is.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)He seems to covet the attention and has been a regular on Ari's show on MSNBC.
The question is, why?
orangecrush
(19,434 posts)Mueller wants ot to be a surprise!
PunksMom
(440 posts)Calculated move perhaps?
orangecrush
(19,434 posts)An intentional leak.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)No real "leaks" from his investigation, only releases of information.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Generic Brad
(14,272 posts)He knows he has been subpoenaed and can't stop complaining about it to others in private. He's off on a Twitter rant this morning to deflect. He has a big mouth and feels like he is under attack. In his view, leaking this is a way to hopefully undermine the investigation.
PRETZEL
(3,245 posts)Chris Christie.
But not sure how much interaction he would have had with some of these people.
orangecrush
(19,434 posts)It's going to be a great week!
Nitram
(22,768 posts)orangecrush
(19,434 posts)talks like a duck, it probably is a criminal enterprise.
Maeve
(42,271 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)especially against the trumps and all their illegal financial gains.
orangecrush
(19,434 posts)some of what they've grifted .
zentrum
(9,865 posts)
from shredding as many records as they possibly can starting right now if not months ago?
Even if a copy of a shredded document shows up in some one else's record, why can't the shredder claim " I lost
it. Never saw it. Just don't know what happened to that document."
But meantime, there may be key material that never turns up againthe shredding can eliminate many important thingsno?
Shredding is so passé in this electronic age. email is forever. Mueller's no fool; he doesn't think any members of the enterprise (except those already in his steely cold grasp) will give up the goods. The subpoena will be presented to the keepers of the servers, such as GSA, and whatever internet providers these crooks were using in their pre-Government days.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)
..he has subpoenaed hand written material too. Just like Osama Bin Laden and now ISIS, as I understand it, used and uses land couriers for their most sensitive communications. Not everyone on Mueller's list is a complete idiotlike Roger Stonethey'd know that the Cloud or whatever is forever.
Putin and various players must be busily having their electronic whizzes destroy electronic records as much as possible. It will be techie vs. techie, I guess.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)orangecrush
(19,434 posts)orangecrush
(19,434 posts)may well be an understatement.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)So no surprise they would ask. But if it's a witness planning to cooperate, he will turn it over.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)orangecrush
(19,434 posts)And the NSA may well be involved as well.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)kentuck
(111,054 posts)Trumpsters have no qualms about hiding information, regardless of legal threats.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)i.e. GSA and ISPs.
orangecrush
(19,434 posts)like the intelligence services are now involved
My guess is Mueller will get whatever the hell he wants.
bluestarone
(16,872 posts)Kinda like say they better be doing something about this asshole?
orangecrush
(19,434 posts)or go down with the ship.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)orangecrush
(19,434 posts)including that he may have secretly flipped.