Mueller’s probe is almost certainly uncovering significant dirty laundry associated with Manafort and other players in the Trump campaign. Trump himself was, in one way or another, waist deep in all kinds of shady wheeling and dealing with Moscow-connected oligarchs. The heart of the matter—involving debt, cash, shell companies, and money laundering—will prove just as banal as Russian advertising buys on Facebook.
And, if you think about it, the banality of Trump-Russia is itself deeply frightening. American democracy proved vulnerable to Facebook feeds, some fake news sites, and a mentally unstable grifter.
We are our own worst enemy.