Why? Why would so many people risk their careers and reputations? They could have looked opened the investigation, seen there was nothing there, and went on with their lives. I mean, the answer people seem to think is they all just hate Trump. I don't believe that is enough. I don't believe Obama and others would hate Trump so much that they would tarnish their own reputations. Even with their vanity and lack of concern for rule of law, I really do not believe you could get this many people on board to sacrifice their image just because Trump beat Hillary.

I think they all needed to cover something major up and this was the only way. I am not 100% sure what but it definitely involves using government resources in ways they shouldn't have been.

1. "Clintons Provide Firepower Behind DNC 'Voter Expansion Project'"

"Another DNC official who spoke on background said the Clintons saw the new initiative as a plan donors could become excited about. That, in turn, would help the Clintons raise money to help extinguish the DNC's nearly $16 million in debt left from its 2012 effort to re-elect President Obama. The Clintons have pledged to aid retiring that debt."

During this project they either try to access state and local data themselves or through Russian sources to help mask their identity. I am guessing they are also using intelligence community resources from the Obama administration to do opposition research or for other purposes.

https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2014/02/27/283550311/clintons-provide-firepower-behind-dnc-voter-expansion-project

2. The FBI noticed weird traffic from DNC and contact Yared Yohannes (IT guy) at the DNC:

• "Q So, in September 2015, my understanding is that the DNC received a call from the Federal Bureau of lnvestigation. ls that correct?"

• "A Yes. There was a phone call from an agent at the Federal Bureau of lnvestigation that was placed to the main DNC switchboard....And in that conversation with the person on the other line, I was asked if I was able to coroborate, to look into specific activities that the FBI had noticed emanating from the DNC network that could be nefarious, and if I could take a look at our systems to see if I can corroborate that - if I could find any evidence to corroborate their suspicions. He said -- I remember speciftcally he asked for us to look atemail -- l'm sorry, not email - web traffic that was hitting a website that ended with forward slash [REDACTED]" (Wiki Leaks???)

I think one of two things happened:

• 1. The FBI (low level employee acting honestly) notices the activity and contacts the IT guy at the DNC about the activity going to the Russians - he doesn't know this isn't a hack but rather at behest of DNC. Seth Rich who is the voter expansion data director somehow realizes that the data he is getting is not being obtained in a proper way and tries to get word out but is murdered. Yared verified he worked with Seth: "I have heard of some of them, and I do know -- I worked with the person you mentioned there, and l'm really sad to see that his name is sort of associated with this kind of theory."
• 2. The FBI is watching the redacted URL (wiki leaks?) and Seth is the one sending data to that URL and the FBI notices the DNC servers hitting that URL. This is why Yared can't find any suspicious activity because there is no "intrusion".

3. July 10, 2016 Seth Rich murdered after Crowdstrike examined DNC servers

• See number 2. He knew something had had to go.

4. July 31, 2016 Crossfire Hurricane launched

Over the summer months not much happens. They do launch the Crossfire Hurricane because they need to monitor the situation in the off chance they lose the election and/or just to provide oppo research.. The investigation was launched only 9 days after trump won the nomination so I don't think it had to do with Trump specifically. That or they figured they could turn one of the deep state candidates and Trump was the only outsider that was a real threat.

No matter who was nominated they were going to need to have a plan in case they lost. However they think Hillary will win so not much is done and a few subjects (Flynn) go dormant because they don't find much.

5. August 15, 2016 Strzok/Others get worried and sends the text about "insurance policy"

6. August/September 2016 Insurance policy that is the Steele Dossier is briefed to Comey and Brennan at FBI because they are getting worried. However there is no need to do anything with it as it hasn't been vetted and Hillary is still expected to win.

7. October 2016 the Steel Dossier allows FBI to get FISA warrant to dig deeper in to Carter page in order or FBI to continue to monitor Trump campaign in the off chance they Hillary loses.They weren't finding much on the other 3 so they needed to find reasons to keep digging.

8. Sometime before the election a client of Sussmann (he hired Crowdstrike) advises him to go to FBI with data on Trump tower server pinging Alfa bank:

• Q When you decided to engage the two principLes, one, Mr. Baker in September, and the general counsel in December, you were doing that on your own volition, based on information another client provided you. ls that correct?

• A No.

• Q So what was -- so did your client direct you to have those conversations?

• A Yes.

9. Trump wins and shit hits the fan for everyone. This is where things need to start happening - and quick.

10. December 22, 2017 they monitor Flynn call where he mentions sanctions.

11. December 29, 2017 a week later Obama announces new sanctions which now makes Flynn look like he was trying to undermine Obama which they suggest is in violation of the Logan Act.

12. January 4, 2017 Strzok is VERY happy Flynn still open because they can use him as part of the plan hatched earlier.

13. January 5 2017 Comey, Yates, Brennan Obama meet and they hatch a plan.

14. January 6, 2017 (the very next day) Comey briefs Obama on Steele Dossier so that CNN can report on it. They need the public to question everything about the new president. They need to try to pin the Russian collusion on Trump so it isn't traced back to them.

15. January 24, 2017 they interview Flynn to get him to lie about the call so it looks bad for Trump presidency.

16. The rest of the story happens.

TL;DR: I don't think this many people would risk going to jail just because they don't like Trump. There are way too many people involved to make that plausible. I think some people were acting honestly not knowing the bigger picture and that really screwed it up for some people. There may have even been a Russian hack but that can't explain why so many people tried to pin it on Trump so hard - risking jail time. They could have just said we looked, fund nothing. I don't think they would have pursued it so hard just because they didn't like Trump. They know Trump's administration will find something so they all tried very hard to get him out. I am not sure what they are all covering up but it is worth risking being found guilty of treason for.