What were the dems gathering?
Ans: They were getting the Trump campaign strategy, where they were going to spend money, their internal polling, their financial situation, their political ad plans, maybe any dissention in the ranks they could play off of and they hoped for some juicy dirt. They really wanted him on “tape” saying something that would crush the campaign.
They were spying on the internal workings of the campaign and using the government resources to do opposition research on steroids.
Given all the dry wells they drilled; President Trump must be mister clean.
Trump has been one of the biggest public figure since he was a young man. If they had anything on Trump, it would have been used early on, back during the election.
That's why they resorted to fabricating a dossier.