To understand this election debacle and all its ramifications, interconnections, subterfuges, and downright crap, one has to be a master of 9-dimensional chess. I have a hard enough time with the common 2-D version. I thought I pretty much understood how this nomination thingy was going to work out--at least in my own mind. But then Bill Clinton totally clusterfucked the situation. He could easily be the smartest politician on the the planet--or undergoing senile dementia changes. Too soon to tell which. Anyway, Slick Willie submarined the entire email probe into his wife's perfidy.
Random thoughts, because the application of logic to this situation defies any statistical estimation, let alone semblance of reality:
1. Loretta Lynch should be fired forthwith! She violated the code of legal ethics by not even attempting to avoid the appearance of impropriety--an expert meeting with a likely witness in at least one FBI criminal prosecution. How could she be so stupid?! Of course, efforts were made to hide this very event from the public. But a rare individual appeared on the scene: a truly investigative reporter who publicized this episode of sleaze.
2. Barack Obama's legacy is going to be primarily one thing: he was the first black president. Everything else he has done or will do will fade into oblivion. His presidency is falling apart daily, with the daily drip-drip-drip of scandal and sordid conspiracies. The catalogue of his numerous failings will not be recounted here. Save that for another day. If Obama does not play his cards right, he will be the LAST DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT. Remember the Whigs? Neither do I. They have been consigned to the dustbin of history due to incompetence in adjusting to the changing mores of Century 19. Now the Democrats are on the precipice of a cliff off which they seem intent on throwing themselves. The Democrats will be consigned, not to the dustbin of history, but to the compost pile of history (complete with 4 decades of feces).
3. HRC will not win the presidency. Berniecrats will largely abandon her and the corruptocrats, looking for more sustainable political venues. Independents dislike her. Republicans hate her. Her nomination (assuming she is not in prison) will irrevocably shatter the Democratic party. Why, you may ask--the Dems didn't split during the 2008 campaign? Reason: both candidates were corporatists, and thus compelled by common interests (big donors) to retain the status quo. It was just a matter of putting a different nameplate on the front door of the White House (WH).
4. So, if the Dems are to survive, they must nominate Bernie--not Joe "foot-in-mouth-disease" Biden, or Liz "Turncoat" Warren or any others who did not compete in this admittedly rigged election. If Hillary is the nominee, TRUMP WILL WIN--no ifs, ands, or buts.

Before Sweet Loretta (check out the Beatle's "Get Back" for lyrics) clusterfucked this process, my assumptions (scenario #2382) were as follows:
A. FBI recommends indictment before July 25
B. LoL assents to the prosecution
C. BHO lets the process move to criminal trial(s).
D. HRC withdraws
E. Bernie gets nominated.
F. Bernie wins election.
G. At this point it would matter not if BHO pardoned Medusa--He would have shot his last shot and would have to live with the
same curse that followed Gerald Ford after his pardon of Nixon.

Now, my thinking is that Obama doesn't have the stones (backbone) to do the courageous things:
1. Fire Lynch
2. Allow the criminal proceedings against Her Heinous to proceed.

Whatever respect I had for BHO are "Gone With the Wind."