{"id":808,"date":"2018-05-07T19:07:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T19:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/?p=808"},"modified":"2018-05-07T19:07:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T19:07:46","slug":"lordy-there-are-text-messages-and-robert-mueller-has-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/07\/lordy-there-are-text-messages-and-robert-mueller-has-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Lordy, There Are Text Messages \u2013 and Robert Mueller Has Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lordy, there are text messages \u2013 and Robert Mueller has them<\/h3>\n

Bill Palmer<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a09:16 am EDT May 6, 2018<\/p>\n

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After Donald Trump hinted that he might have secretly taped his conversations with then-FBI Director James Comey, we all recall Comey reacting by saying \u201cLordy, I hope there are tapes.\u201d Now it turns out Special Counsel Robert Mueller has something else that constitutes hard evidence of communication: text messages. Lots of them.\u00a0All<\/em>\u00a0of them.<\/h4>\n

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Mueller recently interviewed former Trump adviser Michael Caputo, who in the past has reacted profanely to the Trump-Russia investigation, but who now appears to be fully cooperating. After Caputo\u2019s interview was complete, he went on cable news and began speaking in general terms about the evidence that Mueller and his team are sitting on. One remark from Caputo stood out in particular: \u201cThey have the entire campaign\u2019s texts.\u201d<\/h4>\n

We don\u2019t know precisely what Robert Mueller is looking to get from Michael Caputo, who worked for the Donald Trump campaign through the summer of 2016 before resigning amid controversy. Caputo seems to understand that he\u2019s not supposed to publicly reveal that part. But by revealing that Mueller has every text message sent and received by everyone in the Trump campaign, he may have given away quite a bit, due to how Mueller would have obtained those messages.<\/h4>\n

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This means that Robert Mueller has presented such damning evidence of criminal activity, a judge has been willing to sign off on the seizure of the campaign\u2019s phones or phone records. Keep in mind we\u2019re not talking about one person, or specific people, within the campaign. Based on how Caputo is phrasing it, Mueller has managed to get\u00a0everyone\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0text messages. That would require convincing the judge that the entire campaign was one big criminal conspiracy at its core. In other words, Mueller had the campaign nailed even before he got ahold of everyone\u2019s phone records.<\/h4>\n

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