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Trial Balloon · Ep. 194: What Just Happened?

14 Questions Robert Mueller Knows the Answers To

December 5, 2018 · 9:34 am ET · Leave a Comment

Garrett Graff: “Decoding Mueller’s 17-month investigation has been a publicly frustrating exercise, as individual puzzle pieces, like Flynn’s sentencing memo, often don’t hint at the final assembled picture—nor even tell us if we’re looking at a single interlocking puzzle, in which all the pieces are related, or multiple, separate, unrelated ones. Mueller’s careful, methodical strategy often only reveals itself in hindsight, as the significance of previous steps becomes clear with subsequent ones.”

  1. Is Matt Whitaker overseeing the Russia probe—and is his appointment as attorney general even legal?
  2. Is Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross involved in any of this?
  3. How closely related is the investigation of the 2016 election to the Trump Organization’s financial scandals?
  4. How did Trump himself, and the Trump family, react to Cohen’s updates on various schemes?
  5. What has Felix Sater told Mueller?
  6. What has George Nader told Mueller?
  7. What happens to Cozy Bear?
  8. Who is the (unindicted) Atlanta traveler?
  9. Why was Trump’s team so concerned about the transition documents?
  10. How much more of the Steele Dossier is true?
  11. Is it a coincidence that the Internet Research Agency scheduled a “Down with Hillary” rally in New York, weeks in advance, for the day after WikiLeaks dumped the DNC emails?
  12. Why isn’t Mueller prosecuting Maria Butina and Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova?
  13. Why is Mueller charging Michael Cohen?
  14. Was the Guardian correct in reporting that Paul Manafort met with Julian Assange?

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