Not sure that’s true. You had yahoos suggesting in the summer of 2016 that a Trump Tower server was getting secret messages from Putin.
General Flynn made the mistake of ANNOUNCING he was going to stab the deep state intel industry in the heart and they got to him first. At this level of the military industrial complex president Ike warned us all about in his departure speech, they’ll destroy whomever they need to to protect the “family”.
As if a scam like this can have only one target.
The US government attempted to undermine a US presidential election, and when that failed, the US government attempted to depose the president with a popular uprising based on government-planted false accusation.
And no law or regulation can prevent a recurrance.