fascinating read, for those with patience and curiosity.
It argues that from the start Mueller has been avoiding having to trust DOJ to do the right thing with his 'report.' Instead, Mueller has been issuing detailed court documents with every indictment and sentencing, explaining in detail how these trumpers are criminals.
And guess what - now Mueller gets to write about the king of the swamp - Manafort. Manafort knows Russia, and he was at that meeting in Trump tower. So we may get public info pretty quickly, now that Manafort will be sentenced. Might not have to wait for Whitaker to release the report to congress.
The article's conclusion, which would explain why POTUS has been shaking in his heels:
In another critical thread of the investigation, President Trump over Thanksgiving finally turned in long-awaited written answers to Mueller’s investigators. Knowing what we now know—that Mueller took no public action during the entire period while he waited for Trump’s responses—it stands to reason that Mueller wanted to avoid taking any action that might spook the president.
For instance, Manafort’s lack of cooperation happened in mid-November. The special counsel's office delayed the filing until Monday, after it had Trump’s written answers safely in hand.
According to Vanity Fair, the president’s own son, Donald Jr., told people earlier this month that he expects to be indicted soon—action, again, that might have been purposefully delayed until after his father turned in the answers to the “law school exam”-like questions.
Meanwhile, alleged Russian spy Maria Butina is in plea negotiations too; the charges relating to Butina and her ties to conservative gun rights groups like the NRA are technically separate from Mueller’s special counsel investigation, but that doesn’t necessarily mean she’s unrelated to his case.
Similarly, earlier this month, a number of Mueller’s prosecutors were hard at work on Veterans Day—when Michael Cohen mysteriously appeared in Washington too.
All of which is before you even get into more speculative questions, like ABC News’ recent reporting of the abnormally large number—three dozen, in fact—of sealed indictments filed over the course of the year in DC. Fully 14 of those sealed indictments have been added to court records just since August, a period where—as far we publicly know—Mueller’s investigation remained quiet.
Put all those pieces together, and it’s clear the special counsel is building towards something. He knows how this story ends. The only question that remains: Who else in the Trump orbit should expect coal in their stocking, courtesy of Robert Mueller?
https://www.wired.com/story/manafort-mueller-russia-investigation-endgame/