What if all this is prelude to discrediting Mueller and his ending the SC investigation?
Posts all over the web are heavily discounting Congressional Committee findings as *Republican* while simultaneously placing great credence in Mueller as *non-partisan*. So, this continues for a bit, with the progs posting more and more confidence in Mueller and less and less confidence in the House.
The Mueller comes out, says “no there, there to any of it”, EXCEPT maybe someone needs to follow up on these criminal referrals and I pledge my work product to that effort? Perhaps he hands off to Rudy (I can dream).
Twitter implodes. Net down for 10 days to clean up the gore from exploding heads....etc.
Prelude or part of it. The charge should not have been brought, but it was. Flynn was a honeypot for Mueller, who took the bait. That's my prediction on how the story winds up.
Simultaneously, as you note, Mueller has no evidence of what he was hired to find. He has to fold up.
Basically, what is happening is that the public mind set is being corrected to "find something on the Trump campaign" instead of the bogus "find something in anytime, on anybody who worked on the Trump campaign" that SC Mueller was running with.