Cult-45 will focus on the word "foreign".
And try to ignore the idea of "government".
What's significant is that the putative "dirt on Hillary" was election assistance from the government of a foreign power. A foreign power which wants favours from Trump after they've helped make him president (even if the favour is simply that he burns down his country). So that, consciously or not, he's working for the good of the foreign power over the good of the country he's president of.
Foreign individuals are legally permitted to do work on US elections, but are not permitted to be decision-makers or strategists.
It's not just wrt to Russians that the Trump campaign had issues with this...
Staff claim Cambridge Analytica ignored US ban on foreigners working on elections
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-non-american-employees-political
[A legal memo to Cambridge Analytica] "made it clear that most senior and mid-level positions involving strategy, planning, fundraising or campaigning needed to be filled by US citizens.
“Any decision maker must be a US citizen or green card holder,” the memo, seen by the Observer, warned. It also provided a brief legal history of cases involving foreign involvement in election campaigns, drawn up by a lawyer at the firm founded by former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.
“To the extent you are aware of foreign nationals providing services, including polling and marketing, it would appear that unless it is being done through US citizens, or foreign nationals with green cards, the activity would violate the law.”
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“The prohibition against foreign nationals managing campaigns, including making direct or indirect decisions regarding the expenditure of campaign dollars, will have a significant impact on how Cambridge hires staff and operates in the short term,” the memo stated.