On Friday afternoon, CNN released information showing former FBI director and the man leading the investigations into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, Robert Mueller, had begun to charge members of the Trump campaign.

Monday morning news broke that those members were President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, a top aide, Rick Gates, and a former foreign policy aide, George Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos plead guilty to lying to federal investigators late Monday morning.

For a refresher on this story, it started when President Trump abruptly and suspiciously fired former FBI Director James Comey. Then comes Comey’s predecessor Robert Mueller who was appointed to investigate suspicious ties to the campaign and Russian influence.

Along with the Justice Department and the information the FBI already had on the Trump campaign, Mueller began to interview and investigate. President Trump’s response to the hiring of Mueller was less than comforting for anyone who believed there were no connections to Russia.

“You are witnessing the single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history – led by some very bad and conflicted people! #MAGA,” Trump tweeted back in June.

The president then tweeted this after news broke Monday morning, “Sorry, but this is years ago, before Paul Manafort was part of the Trump campaign. But why aren’t Crooked Hillary & the Dems the focus?????”

Why would any innocent person be worried about this investigation? Why would he once again try to deflect onto the Clinton campaign? This is similar to how a child responds when they are in trouble and cornered, “Why aren’t they in trouble? They did this…” But all that is, is just deflection, a skill that the president is very good at.

But there is some validity to what the president tweeted Monday. Paul Manafort, for years, has been involved with influencing the Russian government and the U.S. government. Manafort has been working on Republican campaigns since President Gerald Ford. Manafort has also advised former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in several presidential runs.

Yanukovych is important because of his controversial ties to Vladimir Putin and endorsements Putin gave to Yanukovych in past campaigns. Manafort was one of his top advisors, helping Yanukovych spread his pro-Russian message throughout the Ukraine. This would begin Manafort’s ties to Russia.

Why was Trump’s campaign chairman a top adviser to the former Ukraine president, who by the way was overthrown and fled to Russia to seek protection soon after his election? That is because Manafort was a longtime Washington lobbyist and campaign influencer as well as helping many conservative campaigns. Manafort was a former lobbyist helping the president that ran on the idea he was going to “Drain the Swamp,” this is again another interesting decision by the president.

But the problem with Trump’s claim that this is an investigation from Manafort’s past ties with Russia is that when Trump tweeted before the information about Papadopoulos had surfaced yet. Why would Robert Mueller be interviewing Manafort, Gates and Papadopoulos if it was only about Manafort’s ties to Russia? He wouldn’t.

What this is, is the beginning of Mueller’s unveiling of what is really behind the Trump administration, what is really true and “fake.” For over a year now, the American people have been thrown around by the mainstream media and the White House, unsure of what is true and what is “fake.”

Now in the coming months, Americans will be able to decipher what was true this past year and what was false. Although it has been hard to prove to much of Trump’s dedicated base that anything the media reports, even when backed by substantiated evidence, is in fact true. It will be even more difficult to believe that the Department of Justice and the FBI are both lying to the American people.

At the least, this should be a question of Trump’s ability to vet his staff. Another promise he made during the campaign was that he would “hire the best people.” To many Americans, a pro-Russia lobbyist who has been brought up on charges of fraud, collusion and 11 other crimes, isn’t the first person on the “most qualified” list, if you’re in fact trying to help the American people.