[palmer]

Pretty clearly Trump wasn't going to get any deal from the Senate Dems. He couldn't even get a vote from Senate Repubs when he only needed their votes.

As for your previous points comparing Trump and Clinton, it's pretty reasonable to think of the attack on Trump as revenge for Whitewater. The problem with the comparison is that Clinton didn't have corrupt FBI agents creating the evidence for the prosecution.

[joesbucks]

I don't see Trump as revenge for Clinton. To me it's ironic that while there are some differences, you've basically got many similarities.

I don't believe the FBI is any more or less corrupt now than then. But any corruption today is under Trump's watch. It's his FBI director. It's his attorney general and assistant attorney general. He picked them and got them through the approval process.