Mid December of 2016, after Trump had won the election, Obama said he wanted a report on Russian interference on his desk before he left office.
Apparently it must have been "ready to go"....cuz it was very close to the President's inauguration that the report appeared.
Pretty safe to say that if Trump had NOT been elected, the report or even call for the report would have ever happened. Hillary and her minions would have been safe.....and the FBI shredding machines would have gone into action.
You are correct. This is nothing more than gateway pundit scam artist jimhoft clickbait. Here is what Wikipedia says about GP:
“Over time, The Gateway Pundit expanded from a one-person enterprise into a multi-employee operation that is supported primarily by advertising revenue.
The website is known for publishing falsehoods and spreading hoaxes.[15][16][6][17]
The Gateway Pundit is known as a source of viral falsehoods and hoaxes.[15][16][6] As a result of a number of lawsuits against Gateway Pundit over its false stories, it was reported in March 2018 that Jim Hoft had told his writers to be more careful, saying “I don’t want any more lawsuits so we have to be really careful with what we put up.”[20]
Following the 2016 mass shooting at the gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Hoft came out as gay”