From a legal perspective, collusion is not the issue here. Robert Mueller's team could bring other charges, however.
by Jessica Levinson
President Donald Trump is right about one thing —
he may never be charged with “collusion.” Despite its current use as a
sort of catchall term for the Trump administration’s alleged ties to
Russian meddling, “collusion” is only a federal crime in the area of
antitrust law. In this legal context, collusion occurs when two or more
people or entities decide to gain an unfair market advantage and/or
secretly limit open competition.
One of the
quintessential examples of collusion is an agreement to engage in
price-fixing. Or put another way, collusion has nothing to do with the
Trump campaign and the Russian government.
So
if you’ve been talking about whether or not the Trump campaign colluded
with the Russian government in the 2016 presidential election, you’ve
been saying it wrong. But you’re also in good company. The vast majority
of the public and the press routinely, and erroneously, use the word
collusion to refer to a host of potential federal crimes. This does not
mean the investigation is fake news, but it does mean we have been using
the wrong term to describe it.
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Source: NBC News
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