re: Convince me why I should care if Trump worked with Russia

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Under this hypothetical, you can not grasp why a geopolitical foe, who hands a presidential candidate information to aide his campaign, and instead of alerting authorities - publicly outing and denouncing this criminal act to influence our election and undercut our democratic process - he decides instead to collude, use and lie about it to win an election?

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So are you saying this is a hypothetical, or what happened? If the exact story you are presenting is the hypothetical story, ye, I agree with you. However, if he was simply handed information, used it to his advantage, but did not CONTINUE on to colluding with Russia, then I am on his side. That is not collusion if you simply received something, but never communicated back on that topic. Obviously the receipt of that would have to have been unprovoked by Trump, or it would have been collusion.

But, let us go into another hypothetical. Hypothetically, Trump received, without his request, information on Hillary/Dems. At this point, if I were in Trumps shoes, ofcourse I'm going to use the information, and OF COURSE I'm NOT going to the police/media about it. He would have been absolutely thrown under the bus and condemned for "colluding with Russians" when he was trying to do the right think. This is simple opportunity cost. If I do the right thing, and reveal this, I simply get fricked, or I can take my chances, and probably not get fricked. Going with the latter all day.