"This was a blatant and obvious use of the intelligence function for political purpose" True, but Trump and Flynn knew that also; they successfully trolled the dirty establishment, exposing another traitor. "Trump throws the brushback pitch" - http://andstillipersist.com/2017/01/trump-throws-the-brushback-pitch/

The deplorables don't care aboput an abortion, or anything else you can dredge up or fabricate. "Whether Trump means it or not, is kind of irrelevant because he’s saying the things to people who are hurting, and that’s why every beaten-down, nameless, forgotten working stiff who used to be part of what was called the middle class loves Trump. He is the human Molotov cocktail that they’ve been waiting for. The human hand grenade that they can legally throw into the system that stole their lives from them. . . Trump’s election is going to be the biggest F_k You ever recorded in human history. And it will feel good." --Micheal Moore As long as that's on track President Trump can do whatever he wants.