US special counsel: Mueller makes first move
Investigators assembling remarkable portrait of America’s democratic system at its most vulnerable
The best decision taken by the Trump administration – the appointment of former FBI chief Robert Mueller as special counsel – is the one that could ultimately prove its undoing. That much is clear from the indictment of three former aides to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. The newly released court documents confirm four things that were widely assumed and that the White House must surely have feared. These are that Mueller has taken an expansive view of his remit, that he has turned at least one Trump insider, that his team is moving quickly and, crucially, that he has evidence that at least some within the Trump campaign showed a willingness to collude with Moscow to affect the course of the 2016 election.