Underneath the Iceberg

Last week, Wired published a superb, detailed article (link here) about nine major areas Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is conducting the criminal investigation of Donald Trump and his circle, are known to be investigating but have received very little public scrutiny so far.

For instance: "While we’ve mostly talked about Mueller’s probe as focusing on Russia, there are clearly some adjacent questions about other foreign influence in Washington involving Republican donor Elliott Broidy, among others. A key Middle East go-between, Lebanese-American businessman George Nader, is both cooperating with Mueller’s investigation and has testified before his grand jury—indicating a line of inquiry that hasn’t resulted in any public charges but is somehow central to Mueller’s underlying investigation."

And this is just one of the nine areas. Other underreported scandals include the mystery financing of Trump inauguration festivities; son-in-law Jared Kushner's pay-to-play Middle East scandals; the spy scandal involving the Republican Party and the National Rifle Association; the Cambridge Analytica scandal; the 291,000 documents seized from Trump's former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, and more.

Trump's people keep circulating the baseless claim that Mueller's work is almost done. All signs point to the opposite -- he's just getting started. And if Democrats take control of either or both houses of Congress in this year's midterms, open congressional investigations become a real possibility.