While the Mueller investigation conclusively proved that Trump and his team had nothing to do with Russia the Obama administration claimed otherwise when it asked for FISA surveillance on a member of Trump's team in early 2016.
It's interesting that the FBI didn't notify Trump of their supposed suspicions that someone on his team might be working for Russia. Remember that after Trump was elected Comey told Trump that he, Trump, wasn't under investigation. That means that the FBI didn't think that Trump was colluding with Russia,unless Comey was lying, in early 2016.
The normal way this sort of thing is handled is that the candidate is informed of the possibility one of the many people on his campaign might be compromised. Then the candidate can be on guard and take care of the problem.
By not informing Trump the Obama administration kept him from doing anything to fix any problem that might be present.
Why didn't the Obama administration inform Trump?
Even more importantly if the Obama administration knew of Russian attempts to influence the election, which we now know they said they did, why didn't they take action to neutralize them?
There are several possible explanations including incompetence, they knew there was no significant Russian effort, they knew there was no real Russian effort but pretending there was let them spy on the Trump campaign, they simply wanted Trump to be a traitor and so they believed it, and they were colluding with Russia themselves and hence didn't want to stop what Russia was doing.
Incompetence is unlikely given the laser like focus the Obama administration showed in its actions against the Trump campaign. The continual unmasking of US citizens in NSA intercepts by Democrat political appointees shows that the Democrats were making the most of their spying on the Trump campaign for example.
Other than the now debunked collusion narrative none of the interference that Mueller found was that significant and Obama himself said that there was no evidence or indication that the Russians had impacted vote tallies. Hence it's possible that Obama didn't think there was any significant Russian interference and hence didn't take any action to stop it.
The problem with that option however is that it means that from the beginning the Obama administration knew it was lying about collusion. That in turn means that the entire collusion saga was based on lies. But given Obama's proclivity for lying that doesn't mean it's not true.
It's likely that the Obama administration knew that there was no significant threat to the election from Russia but that pretending there was provided cover for the real objective; weaponizing the Intelligence Communit(IC) to spy on Hillary's opponent.
Given how Democrats demonize Republicans it's remotely possible that they actually believe what they said and that they sincerely believed, even though there was no evidence, that Trump was collaborating with the Russians. Even though we know that the Steele dossier's problems were known to the Democrats prior to and during the whole collusion saga it's possible that they just wanted to believe it to be true that they lied to themselves about it. After Hillary lost lying to even themselves about why would be very emotionally appealing to Democrats.
The fact that even after Mueller, who they told us for 2 years was both amazingly competent and incorruptible, concluded that there was no collusion Democrats are still saying there was collusion shows a fondness for either lying or self deception.
We know for a fact that Hillary paid Russian sources for dirt on Trump. The fact that the dirt turns out to have been bogus, a fact known to the Obama administration prior to their requesting multiple FISA warrants based on that dirt, is irrelevant. The point is that Hillary paid anonymous Russian sources, who could and probably were controlled by Putin, in order to help her win the election. That's the same sort of collusion that Democrats have declared to be treason if done by Trump.
Hence after Hillary lost Democrats would have a strong reason to try and hide what Hillary had done and going on the offense, by blaming Trump for what Hillary did, is often the best defense.
Whatever the reason it's clear that the Democrats concern about Russian interference was a product of Hillary losing the election. Prior to that Obama, Comey, etc did little to stop any Russian interference.
The whole collusion mania wasn't about a sincere concern about Russian interference it was about the fact that Hillary lost.
We know that the Democrats are fully supportive of foreign interventions in US elections since they do everything they can to ensure that illegal aliens can vote. So it's no surprise that their concern isn't about Russian interference per se but about anything that keeps Democrats out of power. That's why Democrats have no problem with Hillary colluding with Russia since that was beneficial to Democrats.
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