Even two years into the preceding Hillary e-mail server investigation, and the ongoing Trump/Russia/FBI/DOJ/FISA investigation, and following it almost daily, I still get lost sometimes in all the moving parts.
There was mention in one report I saw of the FBI-codenamed "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation that made me look up this National Review article critiquing (and linking) the original New York Times exposure of the FBI's secret, the central point of which is the FBI planted an "asset" (or FBI informant) inside the Trump campaign in 2016.
Which was essentially Democrat opposition research to try and find something incriminating inside the Trump campaign, to either criminally prosecute Trump, or to at least make public and ruin Trump's candidacy, to allow Hillary (the candidate the entire top floor of the FBI wanted to win) to become president (after already previously sabotaging the case against Hillary Clinton, before manufacturing a case against Trump.)
And that's all in addition to manufacturing four FISA warrants to investigate Trump officials, based on fraudulent "Russia Dossier" evidence that Comey, McCabe, Rosenstein and Sally Yates all knew to be "salacious" and "unreliable", in their own words.
And beyond that, hiring foreign nationals as further "assets" to bait low-level Trump officials such as Carter Page, Pappadapoulos, Roger Stone and Michael Caputo into incriminating themselves with offers of Russian-provided "dirt" on Hillary Clinton. In the cases of Stone and Caputo, they reported these offers to the FBI, and the FBI did nothing, because the intent was for them to take the bait!
And then in addition to that Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russian attorney Vesselnitskaya who also offered confidential dirt on Hillary, who met for about 20-30 minutes with Trump Jr before he saw it was bogus and ended the meeting with no transaction. Vesselnitskaya should never have been in the U.S. and was only here because then-attorney general Loretty Lynch personally signed the paperwork to allow her to be here. In addition Vesselnitskaya worked directly with Fusion GPS, and met with them both before and after her meeting with Trump Jr. And thus was so obviously a set-up to try and smear and incriminate the trump campaign.
That's not even all the moving parts. But enough to demonstrate there was, and remains, a massive conspiracy by Democrat/Hillary/Obama loyalists in the FBI, DOJ, Clapper(DNI), Brennan(CIA) and others to rig the 2016 election and/or falsely incriminate/smear the Trump campaign. And post-Nov 2016, to create enough illusion/appearance of scandal, and Trump investigation on multiple fronts to cripple his presidency. And in spite of all that aligned against him, Trump is still the most accomplished president of at least the last 50 years, in only his first 2 years.
