Jeanne, you made comments (Sept 2017 US predictions) regarding Trump having documents in a locked cabinet or safe. Yesterday's revelations that Mueller has possession of over 17,000 emails from the Trump transition team seems to allude to that. One of Trump's early appointees was Richard Beckler as General Counsel (chief legal advisor) to the GSA (he previously worked for Rudy Guiliani's firm as a white collar defense attorney-hmm, wonder why he chose a white collar defense attorney.) The GSA (General Services Administration) is traditionally responsible for providing a variety of services to the incoming administration to assist with the transition, including office space, computers, government servers, etc. There is a suggestion that one of Beckler's roles was to secure all materials produced by the transition team, including all emails, so that no one outside of the Trump team would be able to access them, and they literally thought he either shredded, erased, or secured materials in a locked safe shortly after the inauguration. Becker was incapacitated and hospitalized in August and died in September without having secured anything, unbeknownst to the Trump administration. Mueller gained control of the transition team materials through legal means. One of the more amusing comments I've seen about this is "Trump has documents in a safe, while Mueller has them in a slide show."
Great article by Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo with his take on the Trump legal team - who, like the man they represent, are in over their head.
"Behind the new faux controversy over Mueller getting Trump transition emails is a key and probably too little discussed aspect of the Russia story: Mueller’s team has some of the most accomplished and aggressive prosecutors and legal minds of their generation. They’re facing off against a team of has-beens, 3rd or 4th rate lawyers and in some cases simple incompetents."
He makes the point that Trump's legal team seems to repeatedly caught off guard again and again.