[Presbyterian Reporter]

What is difficult to fathom is how the incoming Trump administration allowed this to get by them. The Trump advisors should have been fully aware of what can happen if a Special Counsel is appointed. So unless the Lame Duck GOP Congress does something dramatic in the next 60 days, the corruption and collusion by the DOJ/FBI will be hidden forever. """♦(1) Create an investigation – Just by creating the investigation it is then used as a shield by any corrupt FBI/DOJ official who would find himself/herself under downstream congressional investigation. Former officials being deposed/questioned by IG Horowitz or Congress could then say they are unable to answer those questions due to the ongoing special counsel investigation. In this way Mueller provides cover for officials. ♦(2) Use the investigation to keep any and all inquiry focused away from the corrupt DOJ and FBI activity that took place in 2016, 2016, 2017. Keep the media narrative looking somewhere, anywhere, other than directly at the epicenter of the issues. In this way, Mueller provides distraction and talking points against the Trump administration. ♦(3) Use the investigation to suck-up, absorb, any damaging investigative material that might surface as a result of tangentially related inquiry. Example: control the exposure of evidence against classified leak participants like SSCI Director of Security, James Wolfe. In this way Mueller provides cover for the institutions and the administrative state. In all of these objectives the Mueller special counsel has been stunningly effective."""

[Behind the Blue Wall]

Unfortunately I don’t think Trump was surrounded entirely by allies when he entered office.

[Nifster]

There were lots of Never Trumpers hanging around. And folks like Bannon didn’t have the knowledge base to fire everyone at first. Trump is a business man who still thinks he can work with everyone. Ideaologues don’t