Mueller subpoena

Axios reviewed a Grand Jury subpoena Mueller's team served on a witness.  The witness is not named.  But what is revealed is that the subpoena was for any recorded communication from November 1, 2015, to the present, with each of the following people:

Carter Page
Corey Lewandowski
Donald J. Trump
Hope Hicks
Keith Schiller
Michael Cohen
Paul Manafort
Rick Gates
Roger Stone
Steve Bannon


I'll let someone else analyze that.

UPDATE 3/5: Apparently the subpoena was issued to whackadoodle Sam Nunberg.

UPDATE 3/6:  Charlie Pierce has an analysis:

Here’s what all this means. This means that Mueller and his staff have likely concluded now that the entire Trump For President campaign was a corrupt enterprise in one way or another almost since the moment it was first conceived and that the same can be said of the Trump presidency*. It’s the money. It’s the Russians. The whole damn dirty deal is one great writhing ball of poisonous snakes and Mueller seems to be perilously close to untangling it.

  Esquire

Sounds about right.

The subpoenas go back to 2015 and woe betide anyone, as the nuns used to tell us, who fed any subpoenaed material into the shredder. At least a few of those people on that list have already flipped or likely have announced their intentions privately to do so. All of them except Cohen will have left the White House when Hicks leaves in a few weeks.

And Mueller likely has copies of all those emails subpoenaed from Sam Nunberg anyway. Cross-checking what people want to hide is a form of information gathering, too.

The working presumption of the Mueller investigation now is that nobody is clean in all of this. Everybody has something to tell about everybody else. Absent the promise of a presidential* pardon—a promise that is prima facie worthless simply because it comes from this president*—the stampede for the lifeboats is going to be deafening this week.