With regards to Obama trying to take the Clintons down - I think he slow walked things as long as he could as he is ultimately complicit. It will be interesting to see what emails turn up between the President and his Secretary of State. He’ll likely get them redacted under a FOIA exemption, but if even one of them turns out to contain classified information going either way - they both are equally at fault for not correcting things at the time.
Are they criminals or merely incompetent - that is the question.
Zero is probably working out the details of what exactly he will extract from them in exchange for pardons “to end this national nightmare” - and when anyone complains he will just say that after Ford’s action, “just consider us even.”