[JohnnyP]

“I believe the Russia Gate started with a Trump comment during the primaries. When it was discovered that Hillery’s emails were deleted, Trump said to get them from the Russians. Simple as that. The Rats grabbed on to that and ran with it.”

Exactly correct. Trump made a joke and it gave them license.

[GregNH]

I don't think you'll find a "start" date. What we have was Guccifer who was hacking anybody and everyone who was important. He reveled the Clinton private server. People suffering from his actions wanted to tie him to the Russians because "The Russians Did It" was better to use because after all who could on their own bring down Hillaroid. It had to look like the big bad Russians.

Enter Seth Rich who was "one of their own" and again we couldn't have a disgruntled individual bringing down Hilaroid.

Then you have the piling on effect. Anyone and everyone who hates Trump like John McCainiac who is responsible, along with Andrew McCabe, in manufacturing the Russian dossier.

The rest as they say is history.

[azkathy]

It is also being pushed by Evan McMullin. Read his Op-Ed https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/opinion/a-party-to-the-russian-connection.html?_r=1

Did you see this? http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/18/evan-mcmullin-kevin-mccarthy-washington-posts-trump-putin-entous-washington-post/

Evan McMullin is a traitor to our country. He was most likely the one recording conversations of top Republicans in June 2016 and then he ran against Trump starting in Aug 2016. Just who is paying Evan McMullin?