A few predictions here.
What we know now about the whole sordid mess, is probably the total we will know.
August is upon us and not long after that we have the LaborDay weeks-long "holiday"... Then we have Veteran's Day time offsies..and then Thanksgiving..and of course Christmas ..and during all this there is campaigning/debating.etc.And of course, primaries are next in line.
There is just no more time. Republicans "win the day" because they never wait. They would have jumped in with both feet, the day after the inauguration.
The path of hearings/investigations/court proceedings works in the outside world, but it no longer works in government because of Fox News/Facebook/Twitter etc.
If Trump loses, he will pardon everyone he has ever known, convicted or possibly to be convicted.
He will even play the poor ole me card and pardon himself.
Any cases currently under way will be "ended".
We will never see his taxes.
No one will indict him. He's an old man.. a crook to be sure, but I don't see a new admin wanting any "hangovers".We are democrats and that's the way we roll. 
The FBI/CIA/NSC/e-i-e-i-o will need to be rebuilt, the ACA will have to be resurrected. NASA/NOAA/EPA/..Basically, a new president will be starting at square one, with all the former history being long trashed by Trumpo.
There will be so much work to do, so much carnage to fix, this will fade away...shades of Iran Contra/the Iraq war shenanigans.
I will be long gone before the echos of this mess will rear its ugly head again.
It WILL come back to haunt us, but by then who knows what dire straits we will be in due to climate change.
Only republicans latch onto their prey and never let go.
If you changed the party from r to d, a democrat would have been impeached and removed from office by Feb 15 2017.
Rules are for democrats. The republicans are wild eyed barbarians taking no prisoners.EVER.
In races that are do-able, people just need to be told that republicans are vile cheaters who think it's ok to cheat on a wife, cheat on taxes, remove people from voting rolls willy-nilly, use outdated voting machinery, do business with enemies, give state secrets to enemies, skim money off the government for their own use. It's ok to NEVER tell the truth.It's ok to pay off mistresses, and to "pal around with pedophile sex traffickers".
We have to have some short, easy to understand talking points that define who republicans are..and we need to remind people every time we can.
They cleverly adopt short, pithy, easy to repeat slogans, and we need powerpoint displays to explain stuff..
The days of explaining are sadly behind us. Someone said once that if you are explaining you are losing.
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We never learn. If we had started putting these assholes in jail where they belonged starting with Nixon (that is the first one I really remember) this would not be like this. I am sick to death of them (the Dems) shirking their duties to cover their own butts by saying "we (the citizens) should not have to go through this, it would be hard on the country". Yeah, some little people go to jail but the big bad king pins always get away. THAT certainly makes us feel grand. 
Hard on the country? Not before this it would not have been, we would have felt like things moved for the big shots like it does for us and we would have held them all accountable and likely there would never have BEEN a Trump or even a Dubya with his Cheney. Now holding them accountable looks like it will create a civil war. That should not be.
I am so sick of this. I had a long conversation with one of my sons. I am so sad and sick for the younger people. He has worked so hard, has his preferred profession that he does but he also works construction as well. He likes doing both but he fears none of that would be enough if he ever gets married and wants a family. He actually does not count on much of a future other than constantly struggling. It is sad to hear and hard to argue.
and we're always expected to play by the "rules" 