WASHINGTON — After tallying the guilty pleas and indictments by
special counsel Robert Mueller, as well as digesting the dueling
Republican and Democratic memos from the House Intelligence Committee,
here is what we know — so far — about the Russia probe:
- Nineteen individuals have been charged with crimes, including President Trump’s former campaign chairman (Paul Manafort), as well as 13 Russians.
- Five have pleaded guilty, including Trump’s former national security adviser (Michael Flynn), a former top Trump campaign and transition official (Rick Gates) and a former campaign adviser (George Papadopoulos).
- Both Republicans (the Nunes memo) and Democrats (the Schiff memo) have confirmed that the FBI’s Russia probe originated with Papadopoulos’ claim to Australia’s top diplomat that Russia had dirt on Hillary Clinton.
- The Schiff memo reveals that, by mid-September 2016, the FBI had opened “sub-inquiries” into MULTIPLE individuals connected with the Trump campaign — beyond former adviser Carter Page.
Whether or not Mueller ever finds a smoking
gun that Trump and his campaign colluded with Russia, this is already
the biggest political scandal in decades. And we are just more than a
year into Trump’s presidency and nine months into Mueller’s probe.
“Clearly the worst presidential scandal since at least Iran-Contra, but
probably since Watergate,” said political scientist Jonathan Bernstein.
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