There may have been clandestine and illegal activities undertaken for political gain (and this is where the comparison with Watergate is made. Period. Oddly enough, the Watergate scandal ended without a clear conclusion of the purpose of the break-in. It did lead to the discovery of abuses of power by the Nixon administration).

Interesting. The WikiLeaks release of the e-mails of DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Shultz and John Podesta (chairman of the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign) lead to the discovery of abuses of power by the DNC and Clinton campaign. These things definitely should not be ignored.