Being both obsessive and nerdy I often find myself wondering, “What does a guy like Robert Mueller think of this?” Maybe you wonder that, too? If so, you have my pity.

But today, as we digest the latest gobsmacker — the one where a Russian oligarch dropped a half million bucks into Michael Cohen’s sketchy bimbo slush fund LLC and attended the Trump inauguration — straighter-than-straight-laced Princeton grad/ex-Marine/Vietnam vet/ex-FBI chief Mueller is “in my thoughts” again, as we so often say about those enduring tragedy.

Now obviously Mueller already knows about the (latest) Russian oligarch (a.k.a. organized crime boss) and plenty more about the rank skeeviness of Cohen and Donald Trump. He probably passed the point of being surprised and disgusted by Trump months ago. But as he watches the target (excuse me, a subject, wink wink) of his investigation continue to abuse every norm and tradition associated with respectable behavior, and create chaos with every rollback of anything Barack Obama touched, I wonder how it affects his thinking in terms of how to play all the information in his possession.

Conventional wisdom says Mueller, being a by-the-book kind of guy with an almost genetic respect for institutions, traditions and legal precedents, will never go so far as indict a sitting president. Not even if he has branded-in-the-cowhide proof that, for just one example, Cohen funneled oligarch cash through his funky LLC and into Trump’s pocket. Sober thinking says that no matter how egregious, Mueller will abide by the standard that says he only issues a report and leaves it up to, oh [bleep] Congress!, to decide what to do next.

My question though — what I regularly wonder about as Mueller amasses ever more evidence of Trump’s utterly disreputable career — is how he will eventually phrase the report he hands down.

In a more normal investigation, a guy like Mueller would, you think, stick to a Joe Friday approach. You know, “Just the facts, mam.” But I have to believe that Trump inspires a much higher level of disgust and contempt in a guy like Mueller, someone who takes such obvious pride in conducting his life with honor and integrity.

Look at it this way. From the perspective of a guy like Mueller, Donald Trump can only be seen as an astonishingly obnoxious, reprehensible fraud.

Through the eyes of an ex-Marine, Vietnam vet, Donald Trump is a man who has never, in any facet of his personal or public life, conducted himself with honor — not to his wives, not to all of his children, not to his business associates, his contractors, his lenders or the Constitution he vowed to serve and protect. In Donald Trump Mueller has to see the worst stain imaginable on the respectability and integrity of the institutions Mueller has devoted his life to honoring, not the least of which is the presidency itself.

Trump’s essential sleaziness, compounded by the unsophisticated, cheesy shamelessness of his frauds and constant lies, has to have a guy like Mueller thinking, “Why should I go out of my way to apply traditionally respected standards to a man who holds everything I respect in such contempt?”

Practically speaking, Mueller is almost certainly armed with a mountain of evidence on Trump’s decades-worth of money laundering for Russian crime bosses. His “Dream Team” of prosecutors have seen scams like Trump’s and Cohen’s hundreds of times before. The only thing remarkable about this set of frauds is that one of the perps is President of the United States.

Simultaneously Mueller sees what is — again — an overflowing septic system of tacky, tawdry cons and tissue-thin deceptions. And all this is in addition to obstruction of justice and, oh yeah, conspiring with a foreign adversary to subvert a presidential election.

I can’t imagine that the scent of all things Trump doesn’t disgust him on the deep, personal level he is duty bound to keep under control.

Given all that, why would Mueller pull up short of, at the very least, indicting Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon (and please, please Robert and Rebekah Mercer) and handing Rod Rosenstein a vividly-detailed, novel-sized “report” on what Trump has been and is?

A report so voluminous and detailed Trump’s for-profit defenders in the FoxNews/Limbaugh/Breitbart nexus howling “DEEP STATE COUP D’ETAT!!!!!!!” will be floundering  against a mountain of irrefutable evidence.