There are two versions of "Hillary colluded with Russia."
The first is the the Hillary campaign paid for opposition research started by a Republican primary opponent of Trump by a British national that, obviously, relied on Russian sources to get information about Russian infiltration into the Trump campaign.
This argument relies on equivocation of what it means to "collude with Russia." It's also so dumb that you are probably stupider for having read it.
The second is that Hillary Clinton, while secretary of State, orchestrated a clandestine effort to sell US uranium to the Russian government. This one relies on a bevy of misunderstandings about what occurred, but suffice it to say, it's not "colluding with Russia" so much as ordinary government work.
This one has been around since before election, but it has had several iterations re-injected into the media by right-wing propaganda as an explosive development.
The next argument Ajax is now relying on is the fact that the FBI, in an effort to protect the Trump campaign, sent an informant to speak with members of the Trump camp to gather information on possible Russian infiltration into the campaign that we now know happened. The Trump camp was warned about this, which is ironic given that we now know that the Trump camp was actively courting Russian aid. Likewise, Trump campaign officials had clandestine conversations with people on the Russian end that were under US surveillance and those conversations were incidentally picked up as a result of that. This isn't planting a spy, wiretapping the campaign, or anything of the sort. That's misrepresenting ordinary counterintelligence. The scandalous thing about this is the the Trump campaign was crawling with people with illicit and illegal dealings with Russia necessitating counterintelligence operations that would pick them up.
Given what we now know, the Trump camp probably should've been wiretapped and much more aggressive spying was warranted if we knew then what we know now, but that ship has sailed.
The fun thing about the conspiracy theory Ajax is weaving is it requires you to believe that the FBI, which repeatedly interjected itself into the 2016 campaign in ways that were highly damaging to Clinton and ultimately cost her the election, secretly had it out for Trump instead even though they kept the investigation into Russian ties with Trump campaign figures they were performing hidden from the public. In fact,
rogue FBI agents leaks to the NYT that the FBI sees no link between the Trump camp and Russia, which dutifully reported that. We now know that that story was false. That story
alone could've cost Clinton the election.
So we're to believe the FBI that was targeting Trump and their grand plan to get him was to kneecap his opponent, conceal damaging information about him, then some time down the road release false, derogatory information after he was president? Sure thing.