- According to Senator Ted Cruz, based on nothing more than this rumor, the FBI launched an operation to uncover any links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign.
- The investigation, which was code-named Crossfire Hurricane and led by James Comey and his hyper-partisan deputy, Andrew McCabe, also comprised several more minor investigations.
- In this respect, it was not unlike the insane Operation GEMSTONE plan that G. Gordon Liddy had cooked up for Richard Nixon.