Fanfiction:

Trump loses Nov election. On very same day, he, Pompeo, Pence, etc ask for intelligence communities to unmask John Kerry, Susan Rice, Sally Yates and other high profile Dems, and their communications overseas, including Biden's key candidates for Cabinet positions.

Dozens of requests are made to unmask, all of them looking at communications overseas with major countries like China, Russia, Iran...

...then, an admin official leaks the story to Fox News and Breitbart, and starts a firestorm.

Trump, all along, is made aware of what is in these messages, regardless if they are relevant to any ongoing case or not.

Many of the messages contain possible new policy positions of the in coming administration.

All of this is because Pompeo and AG Barr believe that Biden associates are working with actors in China and Iran to help them win the 2020 election.

So, they believe there may have been crimes committed.

Hundreds upon hundreds of requests flood in after the election. Each request is 'properly' received from a person that was “an authorized recipient” of the information and that the unmasking was approved through the agency’s normal protocol.

All of these investigations begin because of a falsehood laden document, written by a shady character, that Barr and his allies in the DOJ have latched on to, but have not verified at all. The document was initially paid for by the Trump 2020 campaign.

In the hour after Biden is sworn in, Barr writes an email saying that to Trump's inner circle, on the last day, Trump stressed that everything in the investigation should proceed “by the book"...as if this was something new during their investigation.

Now, none of this means Trump et al committed crimes, or even wanted to. They were just investigating to see if the country was at risk!

Now, if this scenario is ok with you, then that is great.

/End FanFiction.

A far better piece on the possible implications. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/cooking-up-a-criminal-investigation-the-obama-way/