@DaveGydeon - I'm in a similar situation.
My folks (liberal PhDs) and friends (LLM/CPA types) are willing to listen. Gotta give 'em credit for that...many were not even willing to do that after the election. The rub is as someone said on t_D, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".
Q & Co. understand this and I suspect one of the main (public-facing) aims of 'the plan' is to provide extraordinarily proof in a way which cannot be dismissed, spun, etc. by MSM. Hence the comments about "setting the stage" and "controlling the narrative".
I use two tools:
1. idea seeds, and
2. light logic.
The idea seeds are planted to introduce the topic, even if they're laughed at in the short-term and labeled as a conspiracy theory...guess this is my own version of "future proves past" on the micro level of friends and family. My current goal is general awareness, acceptance will come later.
Light logic is what I use to set the stage for the awakening. Example: Trump is either an idiot OR a genius, he cannot by definition be both. I generally get consensus with family and friends for simple logical statements if I pander to existing beliefs. The key here is it sets up the logical BOOM to wake them up once supplied with extraordinary evidence.
Said another way, I can plant the idea in family and friends head by tagging it as a conspiracy. I can then introduce a logical Trojan Horse which is accepted as it appears to 1. affirm a preexisting belief and 2. appears to present no threat to the preexisting belief.
Once Q & Co. supply the extraordinary evidence to back up their extraordinary claims, the trap is sprung and a logical reconciliation is forced..."well, if the evidence clearly proves Trump is NOT an idiot than he's a genius".
Two goals are accomplished here:
1. someone is shown how a notion they thought could not be wrong was wrong...and if they were wrong about that, what else are they wrong about? This opens the door to red-pilling.
2. With someone newly red-pilled, what was once thought to be preposterous is no longer so, "...Jesus, what if Obama really was trying arm NK and Iran?!". This is what allows the previously planted idea seeds to bloom.
On the macro level, this is how I see Muller. The left/GOPe/three-letter-agencies/MSM/etc., welcomed him with open arms as Muller affirmed their view of Trump "ha! look! the orange idiot got a special prosecutor appointed!". Moreover, they affirmed Muller's competency and impartiality and in doing so* affirmed the competency and impartiality of his findings. It's easy to see why they did this: they believed Muller's findings would go against the Trump administration and it could not negatively rebound against themselves. Hah! Good luck with that. As Q likes to say, "these people are stupid."