You may not have heard about Robert Mueller, but Donald Trump knows him pretty well.

It was Mueller who made the announcement about the Russia investigation posing “an existential threat to the president” after a surprise guilty plea by foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos, together with the securing indictments of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates.

Trump’s former campaign aide, Sam Nunberg, gave us an inside scoop:

Here’s what Manafort’s indictment tells me: Mueller is going to go over every financial dealing of Jared Kushner and the Trump Organization.

Trump is at 33 percent in Gallup. You can’t go any lower. He’s fucked.

Yoh, “fucked” they say? Well, according to Vanity Fair, even words like “impeachment” are being thrown around:

For the first time since the investigation began, the prospect of impeachment is being considered as a realistic outcome and not just a liberal fever dream. According to a source, advisers in the West Wing are on edge and doing whatever they can not to be ensnared.

Trump is kind of stuck in the middle here because firing Mueller would give rise to skepticism and remind people about Nixon’s firing of Archibald Cox during Watergate. A prominent Republican close to the White House said:

His options are limited, and his instinct is to come out swinging, which won’t help things.

But come out swinging he did, lashing out on Twitter about his frustration in the investigation’s lack of an ending.

Mueller has the West Wing in his sights and is preparing for an interview in the coming days, while:

[A]dvisers are lobbying for Trump to consider a range of stratagems to neutralize [sic] Mueller, from conciliation to a declaration of all-out war.

The president was told to improve his legal team by “installing an aggressive lawyer above Cobb”. But Trump blames White House advisor Jared Kushner for his role in appointing Mueller as special counsel.

On Tuesday, Trump told former White House chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, that Kushner shouldn’t have fired former national security adviser Michael Flynn and former FBI director James Comey.

After a spitball analysis of the Cabinet to test members’ loyalty to Trump in the event of the 25th Amendment, Bannon believes that Trump wouldn’t survive such a vote. He wants Trump to “take this more seriously” and “stop tweeting”:

Bannon’s sense of urgency is being fueled by his belief that Trump’s hold on power is slipping. The collapse of Obamacare repeal, and the dimming chances that tax reform will pass soon—many Trump allies are deeply pessimistic about its prospects—have created the political climate for establishment Republicans to turn on Trump.

Maybe it’s because his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was just charged with nine counts that include the likes of conspiracy against the U.S and money laundering related to a pro-Russia political party?

Check out the full article from our source here. It’s quite an intense read – you’ve been warned.

[source:vanityfair]