Re, the article says

There is no such plausible deniability in the Trump administration. Under Trump, the lies are facilitated not through any kind of bureaucratic genius, but instead through an insistence that underlings toe the public line. 

look at this:

This is just highly delusional stuff, far from a genius plotter where lying would be a ruthlessly enforced part of the plot.

To me, it looks like what Cohen says he did is help spin the desired narratives of a madman:

 Cohen admitted in the SDNY case that he acted “on Client-1’s instruction, to attempt to prevent [women alleging to be the Candidate’s former sex partners] from disseminating narratives that would adversely affect [his] Campaign.” 

 in pleading guilty to SDNY prosecutors, Cohen said Trump “instructed” him to take action. But in pleading guilty to Mueller’s prosecutors, Cohen said he was following the messaging of Trump’s advisers, without claiming to have been instructed to do so. In both cases, however, Cohen said loyalty to Trump led him to commit crimes to sustain Trump’s desired message.

 Trump gets those around him to lie in a different manner than past presidents.

 So where do all the lies come from? The record indicates that Trump decides what lie is going to be told, and the people around him, indirectly or otherwise, do what they need to sustain it, even if it includes lying to Congress, the FBI, and Mueller’s team.

My point in pointing this out: I think too many, including you, PP, have too high hopes that Mueller will bring a grand genius plot down including Pence. I suspect the reason is that there is no there there, only a multitude of crazy fumblings to keep the crazy boss and father pleased. And that is why it gets so complicated and so hard to write 'splainers like this article. And why Mueller's investigation ends up going in so many directions. It's more like this: a bunch of grifters with their own agendas clinging on to and promoting a madman and in doing so finding it necessary to spin his alternate realities. A madman who especially idolizes strong men like Putin. So they go with the flow and are interested in doing deals with the same.

I just fear that impeachment type proceedings are not going to come up egregious enough plotting. He is just going to find lots of obstruction and lots of plotting by underlings in order to serve their own agendas (i.e., Flynn.) For emoluments, yes, that's much clearer.

The 25th amendment Section 4 seems to be the real remedy, but you can see the problem we have when reading it:

Section 4.

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.