Anons, review Q posts from 1-NOV-2017. Read with fresh eyes. Read as if posted this week in the context of what has transpired during DEC-2018.
For example Q 34 and Q 35.
Several DS operatives with any prominence will pose, have posed, as potential contenders so as to lay foundation to claim that investigations/prosecutions are political rather than based on merit.
See HRC but also see Comey as most obvious examples of this. See Biden (ugh). Others.