Her family wanted a puppy, so Alicia Barnett dreamed they might find one that was smart, regular, and a bit inexplicable. She hoped their recent addition could share a personality – and a name – with the person who has become her rather unlikely idol. And so, the Barnetts’ new chocolates Lab was christened Mueller – an homage to the stoic special prosecutor appointed to research Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether people of the Trump advertising campaign played any part. Barnett, who lives with her family and Mueller the puppy dog in Kansas City, Kansas.

The special counsel – a 74-year-old authorized Republican, Marine, and former director of the FBI – has motivated his own genre of arts and crafts even. You can buy Mueller paintings, prayer candles, ornaments, and valentines. A necklace, earrings, keychains. A stuffed toy of Mueller in a Superman outfit, cross-stitch patterns, baby onesies – even an illustration of his haircut to hold on the wall structure.

• Kaya Youth Protect Sunscreen SPF 50
• 6 Bertman, Stephen 2003
• Electrical apparatus for radio and tv broadcasting
• 1 small beetroot

Mueller has turned into a boogeyman for most of President Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters, as the leader of the analysis the elected president derides as a “witch hunt.” But his fans often talk about him in soaring analogies. Barnett imagines him as a duck’s legs: kicking heroically to keep things afloat but underwater, out of view.

Karen Adler, a Placerville, California, crafter who offers a espresso mug with Mueller dressed as a saint and wearing a crown of laurels “for triumph,” details him as “Paul Bunyan-esque,” a man of superhuman labor. Shellabarger thinks of him “almost like Bigfoot,” a mystical creature observed in open public. Mueller has remained completely silent as the ceaseless speculation about his investigation turned him into one of the very most famous men in America.

He hasn’t given a single interview, and his office does not leak. When Kim Six published her cross-stitch tribute to Mueller on her Facebook page, some people informed her to keep politics out of crafting. Her husband is a “card-carrying Trump fan,” says the resident of California’s Bay Area. They agree to disagree, and she feels Americans can do the same. To her, Mueller represents a middle floor where facts can be found, as opposed to the ideological rants that consume political discourse.

She’s thought findings so thorough Congress and voters would be required to act accordingly. But as the analysis has continued on, with 34 people charged and five sentenced to jail, she’s noticed Americans retreating with their edges and rearranging the facts to fit their political position. She’s shedding beliefs that Mueller’s probe, whenever it can come to a finish, will change anything at all. Carmen Martinez seems doubt, too.

She and her business partner in New York City have sold 500 Christmas ornaments and earrings with Mueller’s face. They tend to get a hurry of purchases after major Mueller information: indictments, sentencings. Martinez saw him as the main one person who could business lead the national country out of chaos with truth and believed his survey would drive everyone to turn from Trumpism away. But Martinez, a Peruvian immigrant, was shocked this past year by the administration’s policy of separating children from their parents at the Mexico border.

She started to question: If images of children in cages don’t sway many thoughts, how could Mueller’s survey, just words on paper? Others remain hopeful: “Personally I think like we’re in the middle of a book, such as a saga,” says Janice Harris, a textile artist in Detroit. She was never an especially politics person before Trump’s election – a lot of her work highlighted kittens or dancers. But she was influenced to immortalize Mueller on handmade makeup bags.

Wayne Shellabarger has sold two prints of his Mueller haircut illustration. One happy customer published that using the print as a meditation aid allowed her to stop taking anti-anxiety medication. He hung one of the haircut prints in his own living room in Oakland, California – close to the television, so when the news is viewed by him and his center starts to pound, he can look up at it. There is certainly such a thing as truth, it reminds him.