COLLUSION CAN BE A CRIME--TRUMP CAMPAIGN COULD BE GUILTY

Trump, Giulian,i and the Trump White House are masters of trying to take advantage of the average person's lack of information, disinformation and naivete about law, politics and political corruption.  This is such an example.

"Like some legal zombie that can't be killed, the argument that "collusion is not a crime" is back and walks among us. And it's still nonsense.
There were reports last week that former Trump attorney Michael Cohen would testify, contrary to repeated White House denials, that President Donald Trump knew of and approved the infamous Trump Tower meeting in June 2016, when Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and other campaign officials met with Russians offering damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
Faced with this new evidence of what looks remarkably like colluding with the Russians, the president's defense has returned to the claim that any such collusion, even if it happened, would not be a crime. On Fox & Friends, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani recently said: "I have been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime. Collusion is not a crime." The president himself picked up on the theme, tweeting: "Collusion is not a crime, but that doesn't matter because there was No Collusion (except by Crooked Hillary and the Democrats)"

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It's unclear how the term "collusion" became so embedded in the public narrative about the Russian attacks on our election. But what is clear is that the unfortunate prevalence of the term has given the president's legal team another tool with which to sow confusion and mistrust about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. After all, if collusion is not a crime, why is Mueller spending all this time and money investigating it? It must be a witch hunt!
It's true there is no crime called "collusion." It's also irrelevant. What matters in criminal law is the facts, not the precise terms used to describe what happened. Saying the president is off the hook because there is no crime called "collusion" is akin to claiming the president could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and escape prosecution because the criminal statutes prohibit "homicide" not "shooting."

Please read the rest of the article for an explanation.  Collusion can be a crime and there is evidence that a crime was committed. https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/08/02/collusion-not-crime-not-fast,  Also note that a conspiracy does not have to achieve its goal for it to be a crime. All there has to be one act of any kind by a coconspirator in furtherance of the conspirach.

For some of the evidence see
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/11/17438386/trump-russia-collusion