re: Is collusion a fedral crime?

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Is collusion a fedral crime?

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No, you could literally have a video of Trump and Putin discussing working together to make Hillary Clinton look like an idiot and to get Trump to win, and there is no crime.

The ONLY way it could move into a crime is if Trump promised Putin something in return for either funding or something of value.

Putin could have emailed Trump a file called "all Russia's dirt on Hillary Clinton" and that is not illegal.

Further, in actuality, nothing Russia did RE Facebook was illegal either.

Now, foreigners can't contribute to a US election campaign, so perhaps one could make an argument that if Trump knew that a Russian gave information to the campaign that that information has intrinsic vale and then that would be illegal, but that's tough to prove that information has value. For example, did FaceBook violate the law when they gave Obama campaign data in 2012? Tough to prove that data has value and thus is a campaign donation.