Candidate Hillary Clinton endorsed idea of political dirt from overseas

Hillary Clinton has endorsed the idea of obtaining political dirt from overseas, saying her campaign’s Kremlin-sourced dossier was “part of what happens in a campaign.”

President Trump is taking heat from Democrats for telling ABC News on Wednesday that he would listen to negative information from a foreign country about a political opponent in 2020.

That is basically the same position Mrs. Clinton took when interviewed on Nov. 1, 2017 on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.”

A week earlier, the nation cleared that the Christopher Steele dossier and its dozen conspiracy charges against Trump associates were financed by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The Robert Mueller report effectively destroyed the dossier. His 22-month investigation failed to established a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to interfere in the election against Mrs. Clinton.

Mrs. Clinton was asked on the show about the dossier, whose sources are listed in the document as Kremlin intelligence and government leaders.

“It’s part of what happens in a campaign where you get information that may or may not be useful and you try make sure anything you put out in public arena is accurate,” she said, “So this thing didn’t come out until after the election and its’ still being evaluated.”

She provided this chronology:

“When Trump got the nomination of the Republican Party, the people doing it came to my campaign lawyer, and said, would you like us to continue it,” she said. “He said yes. He is an experienced lawyer. He knows what the law is. He knows what opposition research is.”