Mueller had no interest in Bannon until the “salacious and unverified” Wolfe book comes out, and Bannon is alleged to have said that Don Jr.’s behavior at the Trump Tower meeting was “treasonous,” and further embellished with unspecified remarks about “money laundering” by Trump's businesses.
Mueller just wants to see if Bannon knows something.
What makes this an act of desperation is that if Mueller had turned up something he would have wanted to talk to Bannon months ago. If you need the Wolfe book to provide your investigative leads, you're close to batting zero.
Exactly. As I stated before, Mueller is just "checking the box" here. Nobody will be able to say he didn't turn over every stone.
I'm still puzzled why Bannon would say such things to a left wing author. I thought he was smarter than that. He had to know that he would be quoted in the book and that it would be explosive. Why would he throw himself and his career on a grenade like that?