1) Russiagate is real and is not a made up story by Obama and Hillary.

2) However, what the Dems are missing is that Trump and his campaign had nothing whatsoever to do with it. There was no collusion.

3) For Obama and Hillary to make this up would take a lot of planning. There's no way they could have predicted all of these wild twists and turns we've seen over the past few months. Remember, no one expected Hillary to lose, so why exactly would they even bother making this up in the first place?

4) Trump didn't collude with Putin or any other Russians. However, someone is trying to make it look like he did. Who is this someone? My guess is that it's the Russians themselves. They want to make it seem as if Trump and Putin are bros and that the two have secretly hatched a plan for world domination. Why would Putin want to send this impression? Because it weakens the U.S. and makes our European allies distrust us. That's exactly what Putin wants; If he can convince the world that he and Trump are in cahoots, then Putin wins. He knows no one will ever Trust Trump, which essentially weakens America's leverage on the world stage.

5) The Dems over here simply picked up on all this Russian propaganda and ran with it for their own reasons (to cover for Hillary's loss and to frick with Trump's agenda).

6) Putin's plan from the start was to make Americans believe the election was hacked. If that didn't work, his plan was to simply sew tons of disinformation about Trump and Hillary in the American press. He especially wanted to character assassinate whichever candidate won the election. With Hillary he just needed to release some pizzagate e-mails, but with Trump he needed to make up fake shite. The fact that "Muh Russia" became stronger after the election is not because Hillary made it up, but because Putin had to destroy Trump. Remember, no one expected Trump to win and Putin had put all his resources into destroying Hillary. After Trump won, he needed to get the Trump propaganda rolling. Of course, he had a lot of help from Hillary and the American media.

7) That's where the "dossier" comes in. The more we learn about it, the more certain I am that the Russians themselves wrote the fricking thing. Christopher Steele was their useful idiot (I think at this point Steele realizes he was duped). The Russians only needed to somehow make the dossier public, which was easy enough. Just let the never Trump people like McCain know it existed and they'd do the rest.

8) Then there's the Kushner "wanted a secret back channel" story. Where did our IC learn about this? Oh, that's right, they learned about it by listening to Russians talk among themselves on insecure phone lines. Sorry, but the Russians aren't retarded -- they KNEW those conversations were being picked up by NSA. That was the whole point in having them in the first place. They wanted to make our IC think that Kushner and Trump were over there communicating with secret decoder rings to Kremlin headquarters. And, of course, Obama's IC bought it.

9) And now we have the Russian lawyer story. Again, this whole incident looks like a setup, just like the dossier and the Kushner deal. It's pretty clear that lawyer chick was sent over here by Putin to try and influence Trump in some way. I think the plan was to make a deal: You promise to repeal the Maginstky Act and we give you Hillary dirt in return. Only problem was Don, Jr. wasn't satisfied with the dirt they were offering so the meeting was cut short.

This meeting did two things: 1) It was worth a shot to get the Maginstky Act repealed. 2) If that failed, then it puts Trump in a compromising position later. It would be impossible for Trump to deny that his campaign met with "Russians" and not just any Russians but shady lawyers who are offering Hillary dirt straight from the Kremlin. It would really fuel the "collusion" narrative.

TL;DR -- Russia is behind Russiagate. Their goal is to make Trump look compromised. Obama's IC learned about it during the campaign but didn't put the pieces together. Instead they believed Trump really was colluding and didn't consider the possibility that the whole thing was Russian disinformation. Obama and his people scrambled to catch Trump in the act and stumbled into potentially illegal territory with their surveillance of his campaign. This is where all the unmasking and FISA warrants come in. It's possible the Obama admin even tried to set Trump up in order to gather enough evidence to obtain FISA warrants. Carter Page was a CIA operative sent to infiltrate the Trump campaign and see if the Russia stuff was real.