President Trump claimed over two years ago that his campaign was spied on and was openly laughed at by the media. In the last year Trump claimed that European intelligence agencies were involved and that was laughed at by the media. Oddly enough these same media pundits forgot what they said in the past that corroborated Trump's claims.
The Guardian - British spies were first to spot Trump team's links with Russia. The article is from April, 2017.
Yahoo - The Telegraph - UK "aware of FBI approach to Trump campaign adviser in London before 2016 election." This article is from May 3, 2019.
In May of 2016 George Papadopoulos met with Alexander Downer over drinks in London. Mr. Downer was the Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. After the meeting it is claimed that Mr. Downer told the FBI that Papadopoulos had claimed that he had been offered dirt on Hillary Clinton. In March of 2016, Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese professor, met with Mr Papadopoulos for drinks and a discussion and claimed to have dirt on Hillary from the Russians, a claim Misfud later denies. Hard to know what Misfud would say now as he has disappeared. In September of 2016 an American intelligence asset named Azra Turk met with Papadopoulos for drinks claiming to be a research assistant to Stefan Halper, a Cambridge professor who had flown Papadopoulos to London to supposedly write a research paper. NewsMax - Papadopoulos" Undercover Agent Who Tried to Seduce Me Was CIA, Not FBI.
A little history. In March of 2016, the FBI was still investigating Hillary Clinton for using a private server which illegally housed classified information on it. In March of 2016, Joseph Mifsud is alleged to have told George Papadopoulos that he knew Russians who had thirty thousand of Hillary's e-mails. Supposedly this would be the 30,000 emails that she destroyed, illegally, that were on the server. The emails in question were not the same ones that Wikileaks published, those came from the DNC. In fact, the Hillary Clinton e-mails have never surfaced. A separate group called DCLeaks in July of 2016 published e-mails regarding Hillary's media briefings regarding her campaign which included nothing damaging. This was done just prior to Wikileaks publishing the DNC e-mails which it had previously announced it had and would publish the documents.
Two videos that summarize what has gone on so far regarding what started the investigation.
