You’re not alone in speculating along those lines. I’ve wondered if surveillance wasn’t discovered and rather than go running to a hostile media, Trump & Co said to themselves, how can we use this? And so they did, “planting” false info via illegal surveillance. When it’s all said and done, I suspect there was an epic feint regarding the Rust Belt leading to Hillary staying away while Trump courted them.
Perhaps the whole charade wasn't really a covert spy/infiltration effort against the Trump campaign at all, but was actually an epic disinformation strategy orchestrated by the Trump campaign.
Maybe nobody in the Trump campaign "discovered" any surveillance at all. Maybe they used a bunch of dupes like Carter Page to contact Russian operatives, knowing full well that the FBI and U.S. intelligence community would begin a covert surveillance operation against the Trump campaign.
The possibilities here are endless, but either scenario sure does explain a lot about what has transpired since mid-2016.
Also perfectly explains "Hillary Havisham's" inability to move on after her epic loss.....reliving it over and over again.
Hillary surrounded herself with people who kept telling her she was perfect.
She was unable to see her shortcomings....and lives with the fact that she made bad campaign decisions.
Reminds me of the old European fable.....everytime the people told the Burgermeister he was great, they were actually talking about themselves.