I bet he was a target for a very long time. Remember the birth certificate tweets and that speech Hussein gave egging Trump on about never being President. They hatched this a long time ago.  To punish him first by humiliation of losing then ruining his whole family as "Russian assets amd traitors".  It was probably to include a hulked out Patriot Act to 2017 to "protect us better" as an excuse to arrest and prosecute any dissenters. It blew up in their faces and it's been one big desperate attempt to force it back into play ever since.