Why was the Trump-Russia investigation started?

[Tranquillus in Exile]

In July 2016 probably not even Trump thought he would win. Yet that was when the FBI began investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

According to Trey Gowdy, the investigation was launched on the basis of "no intelligence". Was it a whim of Comey? Did McCabe or Strzok put him up to it? Was Brennan involved? What is the Trump apologists' understanding of these events?

There may be a clue here:
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/13/p...-intelligence/

[Nordberg]

Because we do not want foreign countries getting involved in our elections. When we found out that Russian and wiki were sending millions of people election messages, we though we should do something about it. That begins with evaluating how bad it was and determining who was involved. The justice department started the investigation. The Dems had nothing to do with it because the Repubs have all the power.

[evince]

and those people at the FBI were mostly registered republicans

[dukkha]

again with this?

Lets see the EC-both of them

[tsuke]

because they have a dossier from steele and a second dossier from a person i cant recall right now.

[archives]

In July 2016 probably not even Trump thought he would win. Yet the FBI began investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

According to Trey Gowdy, the investigation was launched on the basis of "no intelligence". Was it a whim of Comey? Did McCabe or Strzok put him up to it? Was Brennan involved? What is the Trump apologists' understanding of these events?

There may be a clue here:
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/13/p...-intelligence/

As would be expected, any conservative jumping in is going to once again regurgitate all the innuendos on FICA requests and dossiers, so, anticipating such, an actual time line of events;

"Timeline of Russia Investigation"
"Key moments in the FBI probe of Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election"

https://www.factcheck.org/2017/06/ti...investigation/

[Tranquillus in Exile]

because they have a dossier from steele and a second dossier from a person i cant recall right now.

Sorry, tsuke, no cigar. The Trump-Russia investigation started in July 2016. Steele was interviewed in October.

What's your second-best theory of why it started?

[The Ugly Truth]

In July 2016 probably not even Trump thought he would win. Yet the FBI began investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

According to Trey Gowdy, the investigation was launched on the basis of "no intelligence". Was it a whim of Comey? Did McCabe or Strzok put him up to it? Was Brennan involved? What is the Trump apologists' understanding of these events?

There may be a clue here:
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/13/p...-intelligence/

Sour grapes. That's all. A bunch of whiny liberals just couldn't accept the fact that Hillary lost. Also, as I mentioned on another thread, this whole Meuller investigation is totally unconstitutional. You cannot go to a judge and get a warrant to investigate someone. You must first have a crime. There is no crime. There is also the fact that the only way they can get rid of Trump is to impeach him. Which also requires a crime. This whole thing is nothing but a witch hunt, designed to make it difficult for Trump to do the job he was elected to do. It borders on treason.

[Jarod]

Funny how the Rumppers like to assume confidential information.

[Tranquillus in Exile]

Sour grapes. That's all. A bunch of whiny liberals just couldn't accept the fact that Hillary lost.

Sorry, Ugly, your theory has the same logical flaw as tsuke's. The investigation started in July 2016. Hillary lost the following November.

Try again?

[hvilleherb]

Apparently it started with an illegal wiretap.

Obama's top 'spy' suddenly changes story about wiretapping Trump


http://www.wnd.com/2017/09/clapper-s...tapping-trump/

[dukkha]

we haven't seen the EC. until we do it's speculation. If we do.
( although Nunes claims it mentions only Popadopolis -no other intelligence)

[Tranquillus in Exile]

we haven't seen the EC. until we do it's speculation.

Speculation? There's plenty of that. The previous poster suggested that "it started with an illegal wiretap". His source, WND, cites CNN:
"CNN reported Manafort was under surveillance from 2014 to early 2016 and again from late 2016"
and
"The FBI stopped surveilling Manafort for lack of evidence in 2016 then obtained a FISA warrant and began wiretapping him again in 2017."

Is it possible that's what prompted the FBI's Trump-Russia investigation in July 2016? This would fit in with the popular RW theory that Comey and his fellow conspirators started the investigation on the basis of "no intelligence" (although they were all Republicans, they were Deep State and therefore determined to stop Trump).

The only question then is why did they keep it secret until after the election instead of, well, stopping Trump? We can only hope the IG report clears this up!

[Granule]

In July 2016 probably not even Trump thought he would win. Yet that was when the FBI began investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

According to Trey Gowdy, the investigation was launched on the basis of "no intelligence". Was it a whim of Comey? Did McCabe or Strzok put him up to it? Was Brennan involved? What is the Trump apologists' understanding of these events?

There may be a clue here:
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/13/p...-intelligence/

CNN still thinks Trump is guilty, so why take that nonsense seriously?

This is the right story to consider:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/...rsuing-a-bear/

[Cancel 2018.2]

and those people at the FBI were mostly registered republicans

Who supported Hillary you lying tool.