What will the outcome of Muellers’ investigation be?

Hard to say just yet, and I think Mueller is keeping some cards very close to the vest, but I think the outcome is irrelevant.

That such investigation is warranted - and according to the courts, it is - is deeply concerning. Everyone wants to nit-pick and pretend this investigation is some kind of obstacle field in which the runner wins if they don't touch certain points, but taken as a whole, this is a [i]deplorable[/i] situation for the US government to find itself in. Rarely, if ever, has there been amassed an administration with more allegations of inappropriate affiliations, questionable histories and suspicious actions as this one. That [i]anyone[/i] is defending the collective mud pit that the WH has become is disturbing on a level that's hard to describe.

And what will come of it? Decades of mistrust of the media and any informational outlet, exponentially more suspicion of politics and government, a bar lowered nearly to the ground for acceptable candidates and officials, a hangover of incivility and racism that puts us back in the mid-20th century...

I saw an interview with Carl Bernstein yesterday in which he noted that the difference with this investigation and the Nixon debacle was that once it was fairly clear what was going on, Republicans had the fortitude and integrity to call their president on it and urge resignation. Today, they'll ride the coattails until the clothing disintegrates.