I have a hard time believing that trump is the only victim of this behavior. I am betting if we look at the primary we will find that the FBI was spying on senator Cruz and Ben Carson. I also bet if you look back at the 2012 election we will find that Romney was spied on using the FBI. we have to face the fact that When Obama took office he systematically weaponized the different departments like DOJ, FBI,CIA.IRS,NSA by putting in people willing to break the law in furtherance of his goals
Obama’s tricks were played on McCain in the last month of the election IMHO
He was shown info of his behavior while in Vietnam or the Keating Scandal that was most likely in raw FBI/CIA files. He was given a choice. Stand down, toss the election and retire as A senator when you want, or we leak this.
Look at Broncos history. It was done in every election he ran in going back to smearing his opponents with sealed divorce records