She paid for the Steele dossier, who used Russian sources, and was quite effective at getting it planted in U.S. intelligence and media. This is how the entire Russian investigation got started.
Conservatives have been concerned about Russian involvement in the elections and the scope of their hacking (e.g. power grids, through hacking and through EMPs for years, and were treated as crackpots.
After watching the Peter Strzok hearings, I think EVERY American should be concerned about what our own top officials have done—the fix to exonerate Hillary Clinton and frame Donald Trump—plans that were detailed in Strzok’s own text messages to Lisa Paige, The disgusting, unbecoming personal insults to Trump and Trump supporters were bad enough, but plans to stop Trump or insure a win for Hillary Clinton—by persons and tools within our own intelligence organizations, is far more serious than the piddly things we’ve seen out of Russia.
As for the meeting with Putin, I suspect that Trump will exaggerate its successes as usual and nothing will be accomplished, but thus far, our allies in Europe who favor the EU are far more cozy with Putin than Trump is. The goal is to sever Russia’s energy ties with western Europe,
Also, I suspect that younger Europeans have a much more favorable perception of Putin than of Trump, even though their opinion about Putin isn’t very good, either.
No one in London protested Putin when he visited, nor the Turkish dictator Erdoğan when he visited. Then again, hating Trump and disgusting images and caracatures of Trump are en vogue.