In Washington, it's traditional that a new Presidential Ad ministration does not investigate and prosecute the previous administration. If a criminal or corrupt government official makes it through to inauguration day, he or she is home free.
This dynamic, especially George Bush's decision to let the Clinton Admin skate on it's corruption, especially transfer of nuclear weapons technology to China, has encouraged massive corruption in Washington
Blatant corruption and lawless behavior reached intolerable levels under Obama to the extent that they became a serious national security threat.
There are a lot of very high level Obama holdovers who were the implementers of the Obama programs such as Fast and Furious, IRS political targeting, support of Islamic Terrorists, ISIS and al-Qaeda, support of Mexican Drug and Human Trafficking Cartels, violent street gangs, the destruction of our military, dumping millions of illegal aliens on America to change the countries demographic balance and a lot of other criminal and treasonous or borderline treasonous acts.
Many more are participants in the criminal graft, corruption abuse of power that was endemic of the Obama Administration.
All need to prosecuted, convicted and the fined and imprisoned.
It's obvious that there are a lot of terrified and desperate people in fear of being held accountable for their actions over the last 8 years of Obama
They are all trying to intimidate Trump to extort a truce with Trump to take the Trump Administration down if he continues to insist on prosecuting Obama era corruption and treason.
The recent riots are, at least in part, intended to goad Trump into actions that allow the opposition to paint him as a police state dictator and undermine any actions he takes against government officials and their private sector allies such as George Soros.
The problem reaches the very highest level of government and we may see some very interesting developments.