The first concrete details of Special Counsel Robert Mueller III’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the regime of Vladimir Putin have finally come to light.Former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort and former Trump campaign deputy Richard Gates were indicted, and former Trump foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos was revealed to have entered a guilty plea early this month and be cooperating with Special Counsel Mueller’s team. Far from being the end of these investigations, these revelations are just the first chapters of a long and complicated story.Manafort and Gates’ indictments are unsurprising to anyone who looked into the former’s career when he took the reins of the Trump campaign in March of 2016. Having lobbied for dictators and other nefarious figures from Angola to Zaire, it comes as little surprise that Manafort and his right hand man were mixed up in extensive money laundering and tax evasion during 11 years of shady work in Ukraine.The White House’s first take on the issue - that Manafort and Gates were of brief and scant consequence to the Trump apparatus - is hardly believable.