The Obama administration assumed Hillary Clinton was going to win the election, so all of the evidence of this illegal surveillance was going to disappear. When Trump won, they knew they were all going to get caught with their pants down, so to speak -- so they fabricated the story about Russia's ties to the Trump campaign in order to rationalize the surveillance.
I think you have it exactly right. It was made up to distract from and justify Obama’s illegal treasonous spying, for over a year.
Excellent summary.
I believe it was Flynn’s and Manafort’s conversations with some Russian counterparts that triggered the plan. They made the rest of it up as they went along.
The media’s compliance with the scheme is really scary.
The Obama administration assumed Hillary Clinton was going to win the election, so all of the evidence of this illegal surveillance was going to disappear. When Trump won, they knew they were all going to get caught with their pants down, so to speak -- so they fabricated the story about Russia's ties to the Trump campaign in order to rationalize the surveillance.
Yes, the Obama administration assumed Clinton was going to win the election. They also assumed that Jeb was going to be the Republican nominee. This meant that Hillary, who they knew was a TERRIBLE candidate, would have an easy time of winning, since "Please clap" Jeb was an idiot (my opinion is also that the GOPe were in on this Kabuki Theater, and fully expected Jeb to lose).
Obama went into full panic mode when Trump began racking up the delegates in advance of the convention. That's when he started the spying operation on him and his staff.