It was all a conspiracy from the beginning..Obama and his cronies needed leverage just in case Trump became President..they were NOT going to allow this man to come in and wipe away their Commie agenda, he needed that to be stopped in anyway possible
If you remember, Obama almost got caught in a felony by trying to do a deal with Illinois Gov Rodney Blagojevich to sell this US Senate seat to Jesse Jackson jr.
Blagojevich was being wire tapped by the FBI in a separate public corruption investigation and Obama got caught up in the investigation as an incidental part of that surveillance
Federal Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald immediately shut down the investigation and rolled up the targets of the investigation, admitted to put put a stop to Obama’s felony in progress.