Subject: Re: Maintaining focus this election cycle
Russiagate was about finding excuses to surveil people.

Bullshit. That suggests that investigators are casting a net over millions of 'people' just to see what pops up.

Is there a name that applies, a logical fallacy or something for the tactic of burying the subject in a larger group?

The relevant investigations were not about 'finding excuses to surveil people.' The subjects were not just any people. They were people correctly suspected of commiting crimes. The Orange Felon's cult doesn't approve of law and order when Orange Cultists are the suspects.