The FBI, under James Comey, handpicked a senior member of the team investigating alleged collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign and prepared him with “mock briefings” prior to conducting an official FBI security briefing for Trump’s presidential campaign — all in order to spy on and collect information from then-candidate Donald Trump and his national security adviser at the time, Michael Flynn.

Unbeknownst to both Trump and Flynn, the FBI investigator memorialized the briefing — which included exchanges with Flynn and Trump — in an official document that was added to the Crossfire Hurricane case file probing the Trump campaign over unsubstantiated and, ultimately, discredited charges of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives.