-You're being obtuse because I have answered the question of why it matters at least five times in the course of this OP. Two of those times in answer to you asking that question. If someone answers a question 5 times just to have the other person posing the same question I conclude you are obtuse. Giving you the benefit of the doubt that you don't simply have reading comprehension problems.
-Yes, it could be all those things. It doesn't explain why you jump to wanting to make the point that because of Democrats having problems with Trump saying he would accept "dirt" from foreign governments means the Democrats have done something illegal. Just to go to logical fallacies again, it's called Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Making causal jumps without proper justification.
What we are struggling with is the Democrats' and media's "outrage" over the President's comments when Hillary solicited and accepted opposition research from foreign nationals, the DNC solicited and accepted opposition research from foreign nationals.
This exposes the outrage as politically motivated and completely disingenuous.
You struggle with something that is not comparable then. Both legally, from a national security standpoint and from a standpoint of severity. Hiring a law firm to do opposition research who then hires a British PRIVATE citizen is not even remotely the same as accepting help from the Russian government or the Chinese government as Trump said in the interview. If you can't see the difference between the 2 instances I can't help you.
The DNC went directly to the Ukraine government. You OK with that?
And think about your Hillary argument. Using a cutout, a lawfirm, to get the exact same information from the exact same people is legal and more secure? Why isn't the lawfirm breaking the law, or risking our national security.
The DNC did NOT go directly to the Ukrainian government. The woman who approached the Ukraines didn't work for either the DNC or the Clinton Campaign.
There is a process by which opposition research can be conducted legally, obtaining information, which is to use an arm's length third party, which is what the Clinton Campaign. In the case of the Clintons, none of Fusion GPS, Christopher Steele or any of his sources knew who the end client was. That was also true of the first Republican client who originally commissioned the work.
Today Trump said that if he was given truly compromising information about illegal activity, he would turn it over to the FBI. Which is EXACTLY what the Clinton Campaign and Christopher Steele DID, and which Trump is now trying to prosecute them for doing.
As for the Dossier being made up and full of lies, I don't think so:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...t-mueller-report-said/?utm_term=.bd1aa689f10c
Nearly everything in the Dossier was true. All the important stuff has been verified.