Mueller's leaked 'hit list' may indicate he's treating Trump's team like a 'criminal enterprise'

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• A Grand Jury subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller's team reportedly targets the majority of Donald Trump's senior campaign team, including the president.
• Axios, a news website, reported that Mueller will subpoena all communications since November 1, 2015, from nine leaders of Trump's campaign.
• A former CIA agent said the subpoena indicates Mueller is treating Trump's team like a "criminal enterprise."

A Grand Jury subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller's team reportedly targets the majority of Donald Trump's senior campaign team, including the president, and may indicate criminal wrongdoing within his innermost circle.

The subpoena, seen by and labelled a "hit list" by Axios, asks for all texts, letters, handwritten notes, or communications of any kind starting from November 1, 2015, between one unnamed witness and the following people:

• Carter Page, a former investment banker and campaign foreign policy adviser.
• Corey Lewandowski, a former Trump campaign manager.
• Hope Hicks, Trump's longtime, now ex-communications director.
• Keith Schiller, Trump's former bodyguard and confidante.
• Michael Cohen, the longtime personal attorney for Trump.
• Paul Manafort, Trump's already indicted former campaign chairman.
• Rick Gates, the former deputy chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign who is now cooperating with Mueller.
• Roger Stone, a former adviser to Trump who left the campaign before November 1, 2015, but has admitted to having contact with Wikileaks, the organization that leaked hacked emails from the Democratic National Convention.
• Steve Bannon, former White House and Trump campaign strategist.
• And, finally, Donald J. Trump, the man himself, makes the list.

Importantly, the subpoena's calls for communications that began after November 1, 2015, nearly five months after Trump announced his candidacy.

In response to the report, Ned Price, a former CIA official who advised Barack Obama and resigned from the agency rather than work for Trump's administration, tweeted that the subpeona indicated "Mueller is treating it like a criminal enterprise."

Additionally, Price pointed out that the inclusion of Roger Stone, who only had a brief stint in the campaign, no subsequent role in the White House, but documented contacts with Wikileaks, may indicate the subpeona is not about obstruction of justice, but rather an investigation into whether or not Trump's team colluded with Russia.

Trump has repeatedly denied obstructing justice in the investigation or colluding with foreign agents, making "no collusion" a rallying cry on Twitter.