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"...Allowing those who work for Toyota to raise $ for the campaign...." A lobbyist who lobbies for a foreign government is much like some one who works for Toyota. They are simply employees. Except in the case of lobbyists, they are like contract employees who also work for a bunch of other companies.
Note that your quote does not say anything about raising money from foreign governments. That is a really important distinction. It would change the meaning of the sentence rather dramatically. And if you would have actually read the emails, you would see why it is a concern, in fact in the very first one. Here, let me quote:
Notice the part I bolded. They where concerned because of PR, because they knew some ignorant people would assume that since among their clients are foreign governments, some would assume the money came from those governments and they would be attacked for it.
Also note this quote from the emails that you probably should have read:
Note that they are trying to remain within the law. Hint: that means they do not want to break the law.
It's not that big a deal for me because I feel that the FEC/DOJ/FBI will pursue anything that's a breach of the law by either Trump's or Clinton's campaigns, so like I said a long, long way back to you in this thread, and I don't mean this snarky - okay.