Where will the Trump investigations go next?

There are two other categories of Trump associates who may be helpful to investigators: deal makers and body men. There were a large group of people who brought potential deals to Trump and then managed the deal-making process. Some were longtime employees; others, as noted above, simply walked in the door and proposed some scheme or another. There are many dozens of people—perhaps it’s in the hundreds—who did business in this way with Trump or one of his senior lieutenants. We know many of their names, but not all of them. And, since shell companies obscured the identities of the participants in most Trump deals, only those with subpoena power can unearth the entire list. This large group of deal makers includes people who live in other countries, and a number with ties to the Kremlin. It is hard to imagine that diligent investigators wouldn’t seek to speak with as many of these people as possible. George Sorial, a Trump Organization executive vice-president, might be first among these deal makers as a person of interest who, like Cohen, is also a lawyer. He handled the Trump International Golf Links development, in Scotland, and was involved with the fraudulent Trump University.

The last category is body men. Long before he ran for President, Trump travelled with men who served as bodyguards and sometimes also handled unpleasant tasks. Keith Schiller was Trump’s bodyguard from 1999 until Trump became President. After working at the White House for several months, he was hired to advise the Trump 2020 campaign with a fifteen-thousand-dollar-per-month contract. In her recent book, “Unhinged,” the former Trump associate Omarosa Manigault Newman described a pattern in which the campaign would pay precisely fifteen thousand dollars a month to people whom it wanted to silence and prevent from revealing disturbing information about the President. We know that Schiller has handled some sensitive business, including turning down an offer of prostitutes for Trump when he was in Moscow and personally delivering the letter to fire the former F.B.I. head James Comey.