Why not take political dirt from a foreign government? So many reasons

It sounds almost reasonable coming out of President Donald Trump’s mouth.

But as both a legal and a practical matter, it is not reasonable. Stephen Vladeck, a CNN legal analyst and national security expert at the University of Texas School of Law, came up, very quickly, with a short list of issues.

The top-level points are his and the explanations underneath are from me.

‘It’s illegal’