So first, ok, I get your point regarding general public vs. lawmakers. People don't remember just how shocking it was back then when McConnell stood up and said the chief - first! - priority of the republican elected officials was not some policy or law or anything at all, but rather to make Obama a 1-term president, and to stop anything he ever proposes so he has zero "victories", no matter how good it might be for the country. And, as you likely know, the use of the filibuster was exponentially greater against President Obama than any president before him. It changed the country. And then to end that presidency with the despicable handling of President Obama's supreme court nominee, it really was abominable.
But to the rest, I must disagree strongly. First, you start right off with this "fake scandal" comment. That's more of this "alternative facts" and "fake news" bullshit that we already get from the overripe tangerine in the white house now and his cronies/charmies. But second and perhaps more important, you are missing two important points. What's happening now isn't an effort to remove the big baby so much as it is an effort to find out what has happened and then if there are consequences, so be it. More, you don't seem to acknowledge that the republicans and people like them - including the narcissist-in-chief - are the ones who worked to undermine the presidency and the president, when it was President Obama. Remember birtherism? What was that if not a full-blown attempt to delegitimize President Obama and have him removed from office? And we don't need to speculate, that's precisely what they all said they were doing.
Bottom line is that everything you're complaining about was done, and worse, by the side you are defending.
What troubles me most of all is the improper conflation, the "pox on all your houses" mentalities that think that both sides are equally bad. It's a completely false equivalence. Republicans and their outlets (see Fox News today 'retracting' the ridiculous conspiracy theory about Seth Rich's murder) absolutely deal in fake news, and have no respect for actual facts. Democrats do. When the New York Times gets a fact wrong, it fixes it, immediately. There just isn't any real question (say all you want) that the conservative press is not moored by reality. And the statements made by the people who espouse these things are simply false.