‘Everyone Thinks They’re Being Recorded’

“Paranoia is enveloping the White House and President Trump’s network of former aides and associates as Robert Mueller’s Russia probe heats up,” Politico reports.

“Former national security adviser Michael Flynn agreed to cooperate with investigators as part of the plea deal he reached last week, adding to the worry already inside Trump’s circle surrounding the secret deal struck earlier this summer by former campaign aide George Papadopoulos, whose cooperation was kept quiet for months before being unsealed in late October. Both cases raise the possibility that other current or former colleagues have also flipped sides — and they’re prompting anxiety that those people could be wearing wires to secretly tape record conversations.”

Said one person close to the White House: “Everyone is paranoid. Everyone thinks they’re being recorded.”