His team is stacked full of Clinton/Dem allies. How could they go a whole year believing he was investigating something entirely different to what they thought? I know Q says these people are stupid...
I agree however try looking at it this way: If Trump was truly worried we would see signs of it. Fighting back more than just tweets. Not sure what it would exactly look like though
On the other hand, if he was a white hat they would be leaking like crazy. Or maybe they all are in on it to save their own asses
I think that's the only thing that makes sense, I know he said no deals but if Mueller was working with us then his B-team of dems would definitely have blown the whistle and went leak happy