{"id":127726,"date":"2017-10-31T05:19:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T09:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=127726"},"modified":"2017-10-31T05:19:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T09:19:12","slug":"mueller-probe-of-trump-administration-enters-new-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/31\/mueller-probe-of-trump-administration-enters-new-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"Mueller probe of Trump administration enters new phase"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_118628\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118628\" style=\"width: 384px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/384px-Director_Robert_S._Mueller-_III.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118628\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/384px-Director_Robert_S._Mueller-_III.jpg\" alt=\"Robert S. Mueller, III, director of the FBI from 2001 to 2013 (Photo By Federal Bureau of Investigation - http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/about-us\/executives, Public Domain)\" width=\"384\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/384px-Director_Robert_S._Mueller-_III.jpg 384w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/384px-Director_Robert_S._Mueller-_III-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-118628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert S. Mueller, III, director of the FBI from 2001 to 2013 (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=21616748\">Photo By Federal Bureau of Investigation &#8211; http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/about-us\/executives, Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and two other aides have marked a new phase in his investigation into Russia and President Donald Trump. And they underscore the ongoing threat Mueller poses to the president.<\/p>\n<p>Trump immediately sought to distance himself after Manafort and Rick Gates pleaded not guilty Monday to a 12-count indictment alleging money laundering, conspiracy and other offences. Another former aide was revealed to be co-operating with authorities after entering a guilty plea for lying to the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>White House officials were publicly optimistic about Mueller&#8217;s investigation wrapping up swiftly, but the probe is far from over and its reach still uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and two other aides have marked &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":118628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16,17],"tags":[9869,17881,19227,512],"class_list":["post-127726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","category-news-w","tag-donald-trump","tag-paul-manafort","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia","mauthors-zeke-miller","mauthors-jonathan-lemire","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}