{"id":1003129,"date":"2018-12-12T14:57:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T18:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1003129"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:12:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:12:17","slug":"muellers-investigation-gets-one-step-closer-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/muellers-investigation-gets-one-step-closer-to-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Mueller\u2019s Investigation Gets One Step Closer To Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Trump\u2019s longtime lawyer and \u201cfixer\u201d \u2014 and a former deputy finance chair of the RNC \u2014 was sentenced to serve three years in jail, including for crimes committed at the direction of the president to influence the outcome of the presidential election, and lying to Congress to protect Trump. This is as far from a witch hunt as you can get.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Trump has tried to delegitimize Mueller and the investigation at every turn, but the facts are NOT on his side. As more information continues to come out, and Cohen says he will continue to cooperate, it\u2019s clear Mueller still has more work to do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Here\u2019s the latest on Mueller\u2019s investigation by the numbers:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Over 100 criminal counts, so far.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">33 people and 3 companies have been indicted.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">16 Trump associates, including family members and senior aides, had contact with Russians during the campaign or transition despite Trump\u2019s denials.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">5 members of Trump\u2019s inner circle have pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">3 Trump associates are still awaiting their sentences.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Trump\u2019s former campaign manager is in custody awaiting his sentence.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Trump\u2019s former deputy campaign manager is awaiting his sentence.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Trump\u2019s former national security advisory will be sentenced next week.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">2 Trump associates have now been sentenced to serve jail time.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Trump\u2019s personal lawyer was sentenced to serve 3 years in jail.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Trump\u2019s former foreign policy advisor already served 14 days in jail.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s longtime lawyer and \u201cfixer\u201d \u2014 and a former deputy finance chair of the RNC \u2014 was sentenced to serve three years in jail, including for crimes committed at the direction of the president to influence the outcome of the presidential election, and lying to Congress to protect Trump. This is as far from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mueller\u2019s Investigation Gets One Step Closer To Trump - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/muellers-investigation-gets-one-step-closer-to-trump\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-12-12T18:57:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:12:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/muellers-investigation-gets-one-step-closer-to-trump\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/muellers-investigation-gets-one-step-closer-to-trump\/\",\"name\":\"Mueller\u2019s Investigation Gets One Step Closer To Trump - 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