The difference being the Clinton email scandal was real, involving an epic misuse of a private email server to circulate classified information.
Trump's militarization of immigration enforcement and "crime control" is, of course, nothing more than a smokescreen for preparing for further such political repression operations in other areas of the country under the control of elected Democrats.
If you're a member of the United States Senate in 2025, you don't keep writing checks to the guy who's in the process of actively destroying a 250-year-old experiment in representative government.
The question right now is whether O'Donnell, who has engaged in high-profile legal battles in the past, wants to go after Trump for defamation in American courts, assuming the Supreme Court does not foreclose such an option.
The American Republic cannot defend itself. This is especially true when members of one major political party decide to either pledge their loyalty to a would-be dictator masquerading as president or to slink away when that same tyrant-in-the-making says nasty things about them on social media. Both are forms of