If you dig into anyone’s finances at that level, you may find some things you could re-frame as criminal if you wanted to.
If you limit your investigations to people you want to get, and refuse to investigate people on your side, you accomplish two things. You punish or frighten your enemies into submission, and you make your friends entirely dependent upon your good graces.
I have a feeling there are few people at the top levels of government who aren’t already bribed and blackmailed into conformity. The ones who aren’t, who become a threat, you’re on the list. They’ll be getting to you presently.
Seriously, there are prosecutors who would argue, with a straight face, that Trump's June 15 "Too bad the D.N.C. doesn't hack Crooked Hillary's 33,000 missing emails" is a crime - he is soliciting a foreign contribution, and he is soliciting the possible commission of a cyberhacking crime.
Hmm...Trump's very 1ST tweet about HRC's "missing 33,000 emails" appears to be from 6/9/16, after Manafort, Kushner, Don Jr met the Russian pic.twitter.com/sJcSRaSXZv
-- Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) July 10, 2017
If that campaign laugh line can be converted into a crime, imagine the field of other crimes!