It's hardly vindicatio0n when a core member of your team is going down on fraud and laundering charges. 

They've started taking down members of his team, which means that innocence is not as widespread as the Breitbart crowd insisted. 

The case against the President has to be ironclad. Grabbing a small fish on trivial charges is part of building that bigger case - Manafort now has incentive to sing like a little bird.  

Still, your optimism is amusing, if premature.