DNC and Clinton Campaign Paid for Russian Opposition Research on Trump

Based on reports in The Washington Post Tuesday evening, we now know that the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign gave money to a law firm, who gave money to a political opposition research firm, who gave money to a former British spy, who was supposed to look for whatever information he could find about connections between Donald Trump and Russia, which most probably means the British spy gave money to a bunch of Russians to get “dirt” on Donald Trump.¹ 

The result of these payments was the famous (or infamous) dossier of, in the words of the Post, “salacious claims about connections between Donald J. Trump, his associates and Russia” that was published by Buzzfeed in January.  And which nobody in the mainstream media would publish before the election because they could not confirm the claims in it.

In other words, the DNC and the Clinton campaign, in effect, worked, through a law firm, an opposition research company, and a former spy, with Russians in looking for information on any connections between Donald Trump and Russia. 

And yet it is President Trump’s campaign that supposedly coordinated with the Russians?
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¹ That is how you get information.

PS The fact that the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign appears to have, in essence, paid money to Russians, through intermediaries, for “dirt” on Donald Trump, does not make Donald Trump a better president.