Special Counsel Robert Mueller is just getting started, argues Cristian Farias for New York Magazine after former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. You just need to look at what Flynn wasn’t charged with.
“What about Flynn’s failure to register as a foreign agent of Turkey, from which he received handsome payments? Or the reported plot to whisk away Fethullah Gulen, the Turkish cleric living a quiet life in Pennsylvania, to the tune of several million dollars? Shouldn’t he get pinned for conspiracy and other greater sins, some of which may have been committed while he was already privy to the nation’s biggest secrets?” Farias writes.
“Make no mistake: Mueller already has dirt on all of this, and likely much more that the public may never learn. That he’s choosing to charge Flynn for only one count of lying to the Feds is proof that not only has he flipped his target, but that the target is also cooperating with an investigation that’s after an even bigger fish—despite insistence by the biggest fish of them all that this is all a witch hunt.”
Trumpworld has a really big problem now. Mueller’s move on Flynn has created a far bigger headache for President Trump than the charges against former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, writes Chris Cilizza for CNN.
“The Flynn guilty plea comes from someone who, until the day he was reluctantly fired by Trump as national security advisor, sat at the absolute epicenter of Trumpworld. And, unlike Manafort, Flynn's charge deals directly with his interactions with the Russian ambassador—and goes to the very core of Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and any possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.
“In short: The calls are now coming from inside Donald Trump’s house.”
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