ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The end of Robert Mueller’s probe marks a new phase of Donald Trump’s presidency. It also marks a new phase for the small group of citizen journalists, Twitter thread-spinners and stunt artists who rose to prominence on the back of investigation. After devoting much of their waking lives to the investigation over the past two years, they are taking its anticlimactic demise with surprising poise. You might say that for the Mueller probe’s biggest fans, it’s not just about the number of indictments—it’s about the friends they made along the way. Jeff Jetton, owner of a ramen shop along Washington, D.C.’s gentrifying H Street corridor who has entangled himself in the web of journalists, hustlers and lawyers surrounding the probe, knows this well. Jetton came to Washington’s notice in early 2017 when he scored a number of interviews with key Trump-Russia figures including former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and suspected Steele dossier source Sergei Millian for Brightest Young Things, a Washington-based marketing collective.”
–Ben Schreckinger, “Trump-Russia Superfans Contemplate Life After Mueller,” Politico, March 26, 2019