How do you conclude that?
Let's get this straight...
The DNC/Hillary campaign did not, Did Not,
DID NOT hire a foreign agent to spy on Donald Trump. They hired - retained the services of - a domestic investigative agency - Fusion GPS - to continue doing the investigative work it was doing previously when hired by another client - Jeb Bush! (It's funny how that's not being talked about, isn't it?) You may think it's the same thing, but it's not.
What I'm really finding interesting here is how desperately folks (and the media) are trying to play off the "foreign entity" angle. So, let's explore why that is, shall we?
The reason yourself and others continue to push this "hired a foreign agent" angle is you desperately want the appearance of "tit-for-tat". Since Team Trump was so willing to work with foreign elements to dig up dirt on his opponent, you feel it only fitting to immerse Hillary in that same dirty, cesspool element. "Oh, look...Trump wasn't the only one who worked with foreign spies." When you pull back the veil of lunacy, you realize the DNC/Hillary used (as in accepted the continued services of) a third-party investigator who though a foreigner, is a national from an allied country; towit, Christopher Steele, British investigator, sub-contracted by Fusion GPS. The storyline that's being pushed, however, is Hillary Clinton funded the investigation that produced the Russian dossier on then GOP candidate-Trump. The narrative then pushed is "the dossier was concocted...a bought and paid for lie" where the opposite appears to be true in some respects.
In short, the media (Trump Administration) can't kill many aspects of the dossier or even the dossier entirely, so they'll just push a new narrative, i.e., Trump wasn't the only one working with foreign agents or even the Russians for that matter. Again, notice the headlines and how they read. That should tell you all you need to know. It's all about deflection, folks. Don't believe the hype!
Most of the stories covering this issue don't even claim that the DNC/Hillary worked with Russian operatives. They simply support what many of us already knew: That the DNC/Hillary campaign picked up the tab to continue the investigation on Donald Trump, Sr. that was already well underway by one of Trump's GOP rivals.
So, if it was "common practice" as Trump claimed for politicians to conduct opposition research on their political opponents, why are you folks on the Right getting so up in arms over this "late to the party" revelation?
They took a report from a foreign entity, contracted or not by a us entity is irrellevant, they knowingly used this false information from a foreign source and with the help of the media used it to affect the election.
There is more evidence that hillary engaged foreign entities than trump. by far.
(Referring to the portion in
bold...) Really? How'd that turn out for her? Considering that Buzzfeed didn't report on the
dossier until January 10, 2017, I'd say her hired investigator was slacking at his job. :mrgreen:
And of course Hillary engaged foreign entities. She had to! It was her job as Secretary of State. :doh