Criminal enterprise?…A LOT of the 2016 Trump campaign people have all been arrested …

Other people less closely linked to Trump have similarly faced criminal charges by the federal government or Mueller’s team. Alex van der Zwaan, an associate of Manafort’s and Gates’s, served time in jail and was deported. George Papadopoulos, who was an adviser to Trump’s campaign, served time for lying to investigators. That associate of Manafort’s who was linked to Russian intelligence, Konstantin Kilimnik, has an outstanding warrant centered on alleged obstruction of justice. Two employees of Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani were indicted in October on campaign finance violations. Giuliani himself is reportedly the subject of a federal investigation.

One takeaway from the Bannon indictment, though, is this: Each of the three people primarily responsible for helping shepherd Trump into the White House has, at some point since he announced his candidacy in June 2015, faced criminal charges. And those three people constitute less than half of the close Trump allies to have pleaded guilty to or been indicted on or convicted of criminal charges.

Last month, Trump was asked about his decision to reshuffle the leadership of his reelection team. He took the opportunity to praise both Lewandowski and Bannon.

“We have Corey, and we have all the people,” Trump told Fox News’s Chris Wallace. “And, actually, Steve Bannon’s been much better not being involved. He says the greatest president ever. I mean, he’s saying things that I said, ‘Let’s keep Steve out there, he’s doing a good job.’ ”

“But,” he added, “they’re all being — they’re all involved.”….

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