Lordy, there are text messages – and Robert Mueller has them

Bill Palmer | 9:16 am EDT May 6, 2018

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 “Lordy, I hope there are tapes.” Now it turns out Special Counsel Robert Mueller has something else that constitutes hard evidence of communication: text messages. Lots of them. All of them.

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’s 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: “They have the entire campaign’s texts.”

We don’t 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’s 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.

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’s phones or phone records. Keep in mind we’re not talking about one person, or specific people, within the campaign. Based on how Caputo is phrasing it, Mueller has managed to get everyone’s text 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’s phone records.