Former MI6 Officer Steele Was Paid $168,000 For Dossier, Fusion GPS Says

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. 1. Who paid does not matter. 2. Receiving info is not collusion. Quid pro quo is collusion.

What tRump did was not simply receiving info. It was coordinating an extensive disruptive interferential campaign by a foreign adversary against a US citizen and US party in a US election.

Trump's quid pro quo may have been providing analytic data (possibly from Cambridge Analytica), receiving advance knowledge of emails, lifting or not enforcing sanctions against Russia, possible money laundering for Russians, possible participation in the Rosneft $8 billion stock sale deal plus brokering thereof by Carter Page, and possible erasure of debts owed to Russian oligarchs.

Plus part of tRump's quid pro quo may have been acquiescing to blackmail by filing to run in the first place.