Make federal investigation in to any potential wrongdoing a retirement for holding any rejected federal office. Staff an entire branch of the government who's only job it is to investigate elected officials.
This exact conversation happened to me IRL once - and it was about a decade ago. The shock expression of the woman who realized I wasn't gong to protect Bill -hell anyone on my side- match my shocked expression a second later when I realized she was trying to set up a M.A.D. scenario about child sex traffickers. These people are gross.
They're all scum and criminals. Some more than others. I won't defend garbage politicians who represent my interests, the same way I won't defend garbage politicians that don't.
If they're garbage and criminals, they should be prosecuted regardless of what they stand for or vote for. Nobody is above the law.
I don't know what people don't get about all people being equal, but that's what it is. We are all citizens, we are all responsible for our own actions, and if we do the illegal, then we should face the consequences of that action regardless of who we are, or what we do, or how much money/influence/whatever, we may possess.
I know it doesn't work that way. Some people get away with shit constantly because they're rich/influential/whatever, but that reality doesn't impact my perspective on the matter. They should be prosecuted, whether they are or not is another issue entirely. Given the choice to have people investigated or not for crimes, I say go for it. If the people convicted are those that I may have voted for or supported in the past, then I'm glad they've been convicted and removed. They probably didn't deserve my support, but I can only operate on information I have, not information of what might be true...
You guys really think the right cares if Trump is implicated in any Epstein stuff? I'm sure if it were up to them, they would smash that button if it let Assange free to say whatever he's got.