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What’s behind Trump’s FBI spy theory?
Short answers ... supposition, speculation, and plain old conspiracy theory.

5/18/18
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his supporters are circulating an explosive theory: The FBI, they say, may have planted a mole, or “spy,” inside the 2016 campaign to bring him down. The unverified allegation has lit up conservative media and earned space on Trump’s Twitter feed just as special counsel Robert Mueller enters his second year in the Russia probe. But where did the allegation come from? The AP takes a look at what we know so far and how Trump has used similar claims in the past to try to discredit the Russia investigation.....
Short answers ... supposition, speculation, and plain old conspiracy theory.