It's more insidious than that: the left truly does not see the issue. All means justify their ends. It's not that they think that tampering and doctoring evidence is inherently good: just that anything that potentially hurts Trump, including tampering and doctoring evidence, is post-hoc good.
If you told them that in order to catch Trump breaking the law, you set up a string of land mines outside of an entirely unrelated orphanage for the disabled and screamed "Everybody out, the boiler is about to explode!", and thousands of struggling kids rushed through the doors in a blind panic and promptly exploded in gory chunks of flesh salsa that rained down from the gutters for days afterwards, unquestionably one of the worst mindless massacres of innocent children in recorded human history...
Only someone who is morally bankrupt is ok with ANY evidence being doctored.
It's more insidious than that: the left truly does not see the issue. All means justify their ends. It's not that they think that tampering and doctoring evidence is inherently good: just that anything that potentially hurts Trump, including tampering and doctoring evidence, is post-hoc good.
If you told them that in order to catch Trump breaking the law, you set up a string of land mines outside of an entirely unrelated orphanage for the disabled and screamed "Everybody out, the boiler is about to explode!", and thousands of struggling kids rushed through the doors in a blind panic and promptly exploded in gory chunks of flesh salsa that rained down from the gutters for days afterwards, unquestionably one of the worst mindless massacres of innocent children in recorded human history...
They'll ask "But did you get that bastard?"