The MSM “banana republic” claim is predicated on their framing the issue as Trump investigating and prosecuting Hillary because she was the opposing candidate, which is a willful and deliberate misrepresentation of the actual situation. They know perfectly well that there are substantial legitimate questions about Hillary’s involvement with the Uranium One deal, her deleted emails, and her connections to the Clinton Charity and its receipt of large sums of money from foreign sources that she was interacting with in her capacity as Secretary of State.
Some people who can do anything, safe in the knowledge that they may not be prosecuted is the very definition of banana republic.