They had several frame up ops plans and all of them failed. 1 Italy where they intended where they hacked into one server and then planned to hack into a computer at Trump tower and conveniently place the Hillary's emails.  They failed miserably before they complete the setup 2 They had planned to use the FBI McCabe/Strozk to plant fake evidence that would have create the appearance that someone in the campaign colluded with Russia.   They failed and were fired before  they could pull it off. 3 They wanted trump to fire either Rod Rosenstein/Bob Mueller in a dramatic way so they could claim obstruction.  He didn't take the bait. 4 They aggressively attacked multiple people involved with campaign using blackmail/threat/fake perjury charges to compel the victims to compose against Trump.   Any move by Trump to help any of these people would be used in fake obstruction charge!