Yup - I agree that Trump Campaign believed something was up. Remember the story that GA & TX were “in play” and HRC might win them? The HRC campaign put resources in those states to try and win in a big blow out, feeding their egos and they ignored MI & WI.
Looks like a classic end run, misdirection play put on by the Trump Campaign.
Trump knew or had suspicion (how did they know that??) they were spying or listening in on calls, so let’s give them some misinformation
See Post #22. It may even be more bizarre than I originally thought. LOL.
In addition to the strange move to campaign in Georgia and Texas (and I'd add Arizona to that as well) late in the campaign, Hillary Clinton was also making campaign appearances in other places that made no sense at all -- like San Francisco and Los Angeles (she would have won California even if she was dead), St. Louis and Kansas City (nobody believed she had a chance to win Missouri under any circumstances), and even New Orleans at one point (Louisiana was going to be a "red" state no matter what).
The explanation I saw that made the most sense was this:
The Clinton campaign leadership believed there was a very real possibility that the 2016 election would end the opposite way it did -- with Clinton winning the electoral vote in a landslide but Trump eking out a narrow "win" in the popular vote. They feared a scenario where Trump would then spend the next four years running around as an "opposition leader," devoting his time and energy to lead a populist campaign to undermine President Hillary Clinton.
So the Clinton team spent a lot of time and money late in the campaign trying to bolster her popular vote total by campaigning in urban areas even in states that weren't competitive either way.
I could easily see how a disinformation campaign by Trump's people could be used to feed this narrative.
The Great American Hero, Admiral Mike Rogers?