What led to the Mueller Investigation

On June 15, 2015 Trump announced he was running for president. Nobody in the media or establishment thought he had a chance at winning. The Huffington Post tagged articles about his campaign as Entertainment. On July 9, 2015 Trump becomes the frontrunner. May 26, 2016 Trump secures the nomination. June 2016, Christopher Steele is hired by the Hillary campaign to get dirt on Trump and connect it to the Russians. On June 9, 2016 a Russian lawyer meets with the head of Fusion GPS (the company Steele works for) and then she goes to Trump tower to meet with Trump Jr, claiming to have dirt on Hillary, she provides none and is offered nothing so after the meeting she goes back to meet with the head of Fusion GPS and report what happened. The DNC claim they discovered they had knocked hackers out of their system on June 11th and 12th. On June 14th the DNC claims they hackers were the Russians; but, does not allow the FBI to independently verify or examine their servers. By June 20, 2016 Steele provides his first report. Think about that, he provided the report in under two weeks from scratch. In fact, he provided it 6 days after the DNC claimed they were hacked by the Russians. A company started in June 2016 claims to have hacked e-mails and is claimed to be associated with Russia; but, it does not have nor release the DNC e-mails that are later released by Wikileaks. DC Leaks is in fact a red herring. On July 5, 2016 Steele meets with the FBI. By the way, this all occurred BEFORE Manafort was hired by the Trump campaign and BEFORE General Flynn was involved in the Trump campaign. July 10, 2016 Seth Rich is murdered. On July 22, 2016 Wikileaks begins releasing the DNC emails.

Ask yourself this, did Fusion GPS contact the Clinton campaign or did her campaign contact them. Her campaign contacted them through Perkins Coie her lawyers office. How did they find out that Fusion GPS was doing any opposition research on Trump? Want to bet it was John McCain that told them because that information was confidential and not public. In fact, Fusion GPS would most likely have signed a non-disclosure agreement which is why when Fusion GPS was publicly outed as having prepared the report Perkins Coie threatened Fusion GPS if they disclosed their history of working with Perkins Coie (the letter which was previously published on this blog). Perkins Coie in the letter to Fusion GPS's attorneys claimed it was Fusion that approached them in March of 2016. Remember, Steele was not hired until June so there was no Russia information at that time.

The next two years will make all of this very clear as the Russia investigation is investigated; but, there is enough in the public record to make some good guesses. The investigation into Trump began long before he fired Comey. It was started in secret at the behest of the Obama administration to help Hillary deflect criticism for her involvement in the Uranium One deal that the Obama administration approved.

Washington Post - The Making of Steele Dossier Timeline. Cant link to it right now. Just search the title.