The whole “vast Russian conspiracy” was cooked up and pushed HARD by the Dems and the ene-media AFTER the election because they KNEW Obama’s illegal spying on Trump would come out soon. They had to cook up a cover story for the spying. And that was to say that they HAD to spy on Trump because he was colluding with the Russians.
We all know how bizarre it seemed when the Dems got so obsessed with Russian conspiracy theories on the election. They had to push it hard because, otherwise, as soon as the public heard about Obama spying on Trump, they would immediately associate it with Watergate. Only non-stop, daily insinuations of Russian conspiracies for months would be enough to push Watergate out of the public’s minds as the automatic reaction to the news of Obama spying on Trump.
That makes complete sense.