The motive was clearly to influence the election. The 2020 election was tampered with in many ways. This was only one of the ways.
Remember the picture on Hunters laptop of Obama’s daughters credit card ?
My response would be that we have 17 intelligence agencies which should be consolidated into at most three. We have people running all over the world at taxpayer expense whose jobs can be done electronically from their desk. CIA has Offices of Economic Research, Political Research etc. doing work that can be done by academia cheaper and without the needless cloak of secrecy. Trump can fire a good half of the current ones there, get rid of their cloak of invincibility and open a lot of what they do and certainly what they have done to the American public that has been footing their ridiculous costs.