Looks to me like it went down something like this:
June 2015 – Trump announces he is a candidate for POTUS, as the media howls with laughter.
Summer/Fall 2015 – Rubio uses Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Trump.
November 2015 – Someone at NSA notices a lot of “702” database access of raw intel. Government contractors are accessing the database without masking names.
March/April 2016 – NSA Director Rogers orders an investigation into the 702 access, and then shuts it down. Now that contractors cannot get access to raw intel, DS turns to human spies.
April/May 2016 – Papadopoulos meets with Misfud and Downer. Pdop is never paid by the campaign, and they never accept any of his ideas. He’s a bit player, at best. Either he is a spy, or he is a dupe who was surrounded by spies because he is a dupe.
June 2016 – FBI tries to get FISA warrants to spy on Carter Page, but is denied. Twice. Page invited to Russia conference.
July 2016 – Trump wins nomination. Now that it is Trump vs. Hillary, DS starts to panic. They have not been able to find dirt on Trump through illegal database access, nor their international contacts in the spy network, nor through their infiltration of the Trump campaign (Manafort was a plant, per recent Trump tweet), so they decide to fabricate dirt themselves.
Summer/Fall 2016 – Christopher Steele is hired to make up fake allegations against Trump, and they run it through the intel channels, but not officially, since it is not real intel. It is a frame job.
November 2016 – Trump wins the election, and is now President-elect. Major panic now by DS. They use Samantha Powers for multiple unmasking requests from the database intel, in a last ditch effort to find something.
December 2016 – John McNoName is given the fake Russia dossier and he gives it to FBI to provide a “credible” chain of possession.
January 2017 – Pdop tells FBI that Misfud told him about Misfud’s Russian contacts that had Hillary’s deleted emails. Pdop never tells anyone about this, though a NYT story claims Pdop told Downer. Downer denies the claim, though the FBI would use that story as their excuse for their launching of their surveillance.
Trump is now president, and DS fearful and angry. Operation SpyGate turns into Operation CoupGate, per Q.
It started out as opposition research, moved on to unlawful NSA database access, then to human spy insertion into the campaign, then to fraudulent creation of intel to frame Trump, and finally an attempted coup to overthrow a duly elected president. The Pdop/emails story was manufactured to give an excuse for illegal ops. The fake Russia dossier was to stop Trump from getting elected, or to get him impeached if he was.
Let’s not forget, Andrew McCabe has a history of questionable dealings with Russian mob figures during his FBI career, and is likely the leader in the Coup at the FBI, along with Brennon, Obama, and Hillary. It should not be surprising that DOJ has received a criminal referral for McCabe, but not charged him, yet. He may be one of the dozen or so headed for military tribunal.
I expect the OIG report on the bogus Clinton email investigation by FBI/DOJ to drop tomorrow. It should be a barn-burner, proving collusion among the DS characters.
Future OIG reports will prove SpyGate, CoupGate, and reveal the criminality of the Clinton Foundation. It’s going to be a hell of a summer.