I’m increasingly seeing MAGA-types posting a Yahoo . com article by Isikoff (sp?) about how “Obama ordered his administration to ‘stand down’” from active measures against Russian interference. They are posting as if Obama was allowing it to happen to undermine Trump. It’s true that, in hindsight, Obama was a fool for thinking the Republicans would work with him to prevent an attack by a foreign aggressor. But that’s only a small part of the article. It adds the context that there was deep concern that taking too aggressive action at the end of an election would be seen as anti-democratic. They were wrong. But the whole, ‘Obama let the Russians interfere in order to trap Trump’ is so fucking asinine.

But “Hillary lost to set up Trump” is one of the on-going theories out there.