So have been googling. For those who were lost about the plane like I was and didn't follow the Cambridge analytica thing - I was only vaguely aware of it, I knew Russia had been linked to Brexit but not the who is who, as it were...
Farage was friends with a guy called Bannon. (since 2011)
Bannon and a rich guy called Mercer (who is heavily invested in the Trump campaign) set up Cambridge Analytica in 2013. CA also has a US office (2015) and a Canadian office. They had loads of data from FB which they were using to target ads toward certain demographics.
They also set up the London Breitbart (a right-wing news outlet)
Bannon recruited a guy called Kassam for Brietbart. Kassam subsequently ran for the leadership of UKIP when Farage resigned.
Meuller is a Special Council (?) investigating the links between Russia and Trump.
Meuller is currently investigating Roger stone and it has been revealed that Bannon is the ‘high ranking Trump campaign official’ referred to in the documents.
Bannon was in charge of the trump campaign. He had taken over in August 2016 from Paul Manafort – now jailed under a number of federal charges connected to his lobbying operations for Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs.
Meanwhile, back in the UK...
Farage set up Leave.EU with a guy called Aaron Banks running it.
Whistleblower Cambridge Analytica executive, Brittany Kaiser has said that Brexit was apparently the test run for Trumps campaign.
Accordingto Farage, Bannon played a crucial role in Britain’s Brexit vote.
Banks suggested enlisting Cambridge Analytica’s help in reaching out to Americans “with family ties to the UK.” Evidently, by targeting Americans with British relatives, the hope was that they could avoid campaign-finance-law violations. (Uk and US law both forbid financial contributions from outside sources)
Banks is now under investigation in the UK. (I think)
There are now also links to Wikileaks as after the sexual assault allegations against trump, the Clinton emails were released by WikiLeaks which took the media spotlight OFF trump.
The high ranking official supposedly text Stone saying 'well done' (so it was planned)
In his effort to ascertain the relationship between WikiLeaks and associates of the Trump campaign, Robert Mueller has expanded his investigation to include Britain.
Mueller’s office had asked about the Farage’s relationship to Trump associates during witness interviews earlier in the year. Mueller has also reportedly asked questions about Banks, who donated £8 million to Farage’s efforts.
A friend of Stone, Corsi, announced that he expects to be indicted, following months of cooperation with the Mueller probe, for lying under oath. Corsi is believed to be a potential intermediary for communications involving Stone and WikiLeaks, and the release of hacked Clinton campaign e-mails.
Corsi told The Guardian that he was specifically asked about Farage. Farage had raised the interest of FBI investigators because of his relationships with individuals connected to both the Trump campaign and Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder whom Farage visited in March, apparently to do an interview for LBC.
So as RTB said, that is the histoy to the links between Mueller and Farage/Brexit.
So Jake Sherman saw the special investigators plane ( as he follows them to see if there is an interesting story) in London and it started a twitter thread that then had comments about Farage ( and therefore Brexit) and t was pointed out by journo Carole who is the one who has been reporting about CA.
So it is all twisted and tied together. Hence it being relevant to a brexit thread.
^^Summary is how I THINK it is connected. Maybe. Feel free to correct me if needed! Typing it out actually got it clearer in my head so I just kept going to connect it to comments on this thread and I needed a timeline all together as I read far too many old newspaper reports that lead to more googling and more newspaper reports
Aaaaand now I have probably xposted with loads so feel free to ignore!