NEW: Mueller team focusing on flow of money from Russia into 2016 campaign. 3 oligarchs stopped & searched when private planes landed at US airports, incl their devices. Question: Did Russia use “straw donors” to secretly & illegally funnel money to Trump cnn.it/2Gvf8U6
This is good reminder that while Trump waves symbols like sending National Guard troops to "secure the border," Mueller is dealing with the real national security issue at our border: Russians and Russian money distorting & corrupting our country. Trump doesn't want to stop this. 
😃"When [Russia] sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems & they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists, and some–I assume–are good people" to paraphrase DJT😬
Remember Manafort's "Active sponsors of RNC" note from Trump Tower meeting? Here's a report from September about Mueller probing flow of Russian-American oligarch money to Trump political funds, including RNC and inauguration. abcnews.go.com/Politics/inves…
It's hard not to suspect more to GOP's stunning complicity & silence in the face of Trump's daily disasters & degradation of our country. Russia penetrated our democracy in many ways. It only makes sense they'd grease RNC too. A piece about oligarch money dallasnews.com/opinion/commen…
It seems Rick Gates' cooperation may be paying off. He stayed on Trump campaign after Manafort. Gates not only knew lots about Russian oligarchs & their money. He worked w/ Parscale and Priebus on daily RNC operations, incl the data op using Facebook & CambridgeAnalytica. #Maddow
