While Democrats and Trump critics wax indignant about Donald Trump Jr. meeting with a Russian attorney last June, they often forget to mention that the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign colluded with a variety of foreign operatives to dig up dirt on Donald Trump.

The anti-Trump Left went ballistic on Sunday when Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son, admitted he took a meeting with Natalia Poklonskaya, a Russian attorney interested in lifting certain sanctions on Russian citizens.

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For media critics seeking for months to prove “collusion” between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, the news was all they needed to cry scandal.

Perhaps no criticism was more colored by purple rage than that from Richard Painter, a former ethics attorney for President George W. Bush, who is now the vice chairman of the left-wing Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

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Yet at the same time, Painter demonstrated the off-the-chart knack for hypocrisy in which Clinton supporters and anti-Trump activists often engage.

“We do not get our opposition research from spies. We do not collaborate with Russian spies, unless we want to be accused of treason,” said Painter Sunday on MSNBC.

Painter went even further over the top, saying that had this meeting occurred during the Bush administration, Trump Jr. and son-in-law Jared Kushner would already be “in custody by now.”

“Where is the crime? We haven’t even named a crime let alone suggested that charges are going to be brought.”

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But such critics seem to forget that Clinton allies made extensive use of foreign agents as opposition researchers.

On January 11, Politico reported that Ukrainians were in league with some Americans to sabotage Trump during the 2016 presidential election.

“Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office,” according to the Politico story by Kenneth Vogel and David Stern. “They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found.”

After the election, Politico reported Ukrainian officials were scrambling to get back into Trump’s good graces after months of trying to boost Clinton.

But it wasn’t the Ukrainians who did the real dirt-digging on Trump. That was a retired British spy who was hired by Fusion GPS, a campaign-research firm hired to examine Trump. Initially, the firm worked for a Republican rival of Trump. But then Clinton used the research.

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Fusion GPS and Steele ultimately produced the “dossier,” a dubious document alleging Trump was compromised by the Russian government and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The document made its way to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) before the election. Reid accused the FBI of sitting on the document before Election Day.

When the document was finally released in January, and published on BuzzFeed, it touched off a firestorm.

Trump and Sean Spicer, then the transition press secretary, denounced BuzzFeed for running it and slammed CNN for reporting on aspects of the document. Steele, once a British spy in Russia, went into hiding.

Painter did not respond to an email inquiry from LifeZette about the use of foreign agents by Democrats.

But Michael Mukasey, Bush’s attorney general from 2007 to 2009, told CNN on February 27 that it is not a crime to discuss politics or policy with Russian operatives, or any government.

“I haven’t heard anybody identify a crime that has been committed,” said Mukasey. “Where is the crime? We haven’t even named a crime let alone suggested that charges are going to be brought.”

As for Donald Trump Jr., he issued a statement on Sunday indicating he did not know who the attorney was before he met her in Trump Tower. He then ended the June 2016 meeting after he felt misled by the woman.

“I was asked to have a meeting by an acquaintance I knew from the 2013 Miss Universe pageant with an individual who I was told might have information helpful to the campaign,” said Trump Jr. “I was not told her name prior to the meeting. I asked Jared and Paul to attend, but told them nothing of the substance … After pleasantries were exchanged, the woman stated that she had information that individuals connected to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Ms. Clinton.”

Trump Jr. suggested the supposed information was not of any use to the Trump team.

“Her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense,” he continued. “No details or supporting information was provided or even offered. It quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information. It became clear to me that this was the true agenda all along and that the claims of potentially helpful information were a pretext for the meeting. I interrupted and advised her that my father was not an elected official, but rather a private citizen, and that her comments and concerns were better addressed if and when he held public office.”