This series reproduces documents from the Mueller investigation reviewed by the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act at the request of Jason Leopold of Buzzfeed and released to the public beginning November 19, 2019. This first volume in the series includes the "302" typed reports and original handwritten notes for interviews that the Mueller team conducted with key individuals including Rick Gates, Steve Bannon, and Michael Cohen. There are many gems that you can see in black and white as they originally entered the national consciousness:

• Gates reporting that Paul Manafort blamed the DNC email hack on Ukraine
• Gates reporting that Trump told him "more leaks were coming"
• Cohen preparing for Congressional testimony about Trump Tower Moscow: "Keep Trump out of the Russia conversation."
• Jaw-dropping details about Jared Kushner's Croatian vacation with a Russian billionaire and Murdoch ex Wendi Deng
• Bannon emails showing Manaforst still involved with the campaign three days before the November 2016 election
• The Writ of Indictment that Trump might have handed Hillary during the first debate
• Bannon on first meeting Trump in August 2010--informed of Trump's presidential ambitions, Bannon said "For what country"?

There is no substitute for looking at primary documents and real-time work product to understand how people's minds were actually working in history. This is what Robert Mueller had to work with.


The ideal gift for the Rachel Maddow-loving, Trump-era-outraged Mueller completist on your list.