[Grampa Dave]

Here we disagree, and you posted why many of us will call it Spygate:

Maybe “spying” is easier for the uninformed voter to understand!"

The independent and probably uninformed voters will probably decide the 2020 election.

They don't spend hours on FR debating/nuancing what to call spying on a Presidential Candidate.

They call it spying.

Look at how the left wingers in Congress and their mediots went ballistic when AG Barr called it spying. Their focus groups understood what Spying was.

Last but not least, Rush Limbaugh has a great handle on what to label tricks/stunts/crimes of the left, as shown below:

Obama Spied on Trump — And the Drive-Bys Covered It Up

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | May 3, 2019 | Rush Limbaugh

[Oldexpat]

shumer even threatened Trump with the intelligence agencies. He knew what was going on.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I have no doubt you are right and it will be called something that is easy for the great unwashed to understand. That is probably the correct strategy.

This thing is SO deep, SO complicated, has SO many players and the tentacles are SO deep and pervasive that it’s almost impossible to understand everything that went on. It seems to have had many different objectives, too.

So simplifying it is essential to get any traction. But “spying” seems too trivial and too easily dismissed.

Of course, the original “second rate burglary” was easy to dismiss, too.

[kagnew]

They call it spying.

Last but not least, Rush Limbaugh has a great handle on what to label tricks/stunts/crimes of the left, as shown below:
Obama Spied on Trump — And the Drive-Bys Covered It Up

Rush surely hits it on the head doesn’t he? Calls it what it is? SPYING.