Collusion, collusion, collusion…That’s all that the Democrats and a compliant MSM said for two years. Despite no evidence being produced, the public was deluged with claims of illegality and criminality on the part of the Trump campaign. It was all because the Democrats could not accept the fact that HRC lost the election they had tried to rig for her. Their hatred for PDJT did not allow them to look at events rationally.
What is collusion? Webster’s defines collusion as a secret agreement or cooperation especially for an illegal or deceitful purpose. As Mueller took pains to point out, collusion per se is not a crime under our federal laws. However, conspiracy is. And conspiracy has a definition that for all intents and purposes is the same as collusion. Under Webster conspiracy is joining in a secret agreement to do an unlawful or wrongful act or an act which becomes unlawful as a result of the secret agreement.
The Mueller Report notes that collusion generally equates to conspiracy. This is defined on page 180 of Volume 1. ”…collusion is largely synonymous with conspiracy as that crime is set forth in the general federal conspiracy statute, 18 U.S.C. § 371. “
As most people know by now the Special Counsel determined NO COLLUSION, NO CONSPIRACY. The summary of the declination to charge is show below.
For that reason, this Office’s focus in resolving the question of joint criminal liability was on conspiracy as defined in federal law, not the commonly discussed term “collusion.” The Office considered in particular whether contacts between Trump Campaign officials and Russia-linked individuals could trigger liability for the crime of conspiracy—either under statutes that have their own conspiracy language (e.g.,18 U.S.C. §§ 1349, 1951(a)), or under the general conspiracy statute (18 U.S.C. § 371). The investigation did not establish that the contacts described in Volume I, Section IV, supra, amounted to an agreement to commit any substantive violation of federal criminal law—including foreign-influence and campaign-finance laws, both of which are discussed further below. The Office therefore did not charge any individual associated with the Trump Campaign with conspiracy to commit a federal offense arising from Russia contacts, either under a specific statute or under Section 371 ’s offenses clause.
The Office also did not charge any campaign official or associate with a conspiracy under Section 371 ’s defraud clause. That clause criminalizes participating in an agreement to obstruct a lawful function of the U.S. government or its agencies through deceitful or dishonest means.
The investigation did not establish any agreement among Campaign officials— or between such officials and Russia-linked individuals—to interfere with or obstruct a lawful function of a government agency during the campaign or transition period. And, as discussed in Volume I, Section V.A, supra, the investigation did not identify evidence that any Campaign official or associate knowingly and intentionally participated in the conspiracy to defraud that the Office charged, namely, the active-measures conspiracy described in Volume I, Section II, supra. Accordingly, the Office did not charge any Campaign associate or other U.S. person with conspiracy to defraud the United States based on the Russia-related contacts described in Section IV above.
This crushed Democratic hopes for some smoking gun that would show that PDJT’s victory in the 2016 election was illegitimate. How has this affected the Democrats?
Some have a mild case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. They are hoping they can build a story that PDJT is guilty of obstructing the investigation. This was an investigation started under false pretenses and that showed that he was not guilty of any crimes. In fact, it appears that most of the investigative effort was directed at the obstruction angle. Again this was for a situation where no crime had occurred.
Others, who have a more serious case of TDS, are still clinging to the idea that there was a collusion crime. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, is one such politician. Schiff had regaled the American public for a long time with teaser comments that he had seen material that he could not reveal that proved that PDJT was guilty of collusion. The Mueller Report destroyed his credibility like a shotgun blast through a ripe pumpkin.
Despite the fact that the Mueller Report said that collusion was synonymous with conspiracy, Schiff is still clinging to the fake narrative that the Trump Campaign colluded with the Russians. On Sunday he stated that there was “ample evidence of collusion in plain sight.” This seems to be following the Democratic First Commandment.
Courtesy…Dee Chadwell…American Thinker
He went on to say, “And the fact that a candidate for president and now president of the United States would not only not stand up and resist Russian interference in our election but would welcome it…” Apparently Schiff has not read the report carefully. Again he is providing false information. The report clearly indicates that Russian attempts to interfere in our elections started in 2014 and were known to President Obama. Why didn’t Obama take action? Why did Obama wait until December, 2016 to do so?
All nine Republicans on the Intelligence Committee have called for Schiff’s resignation from the Intelligence Committee and for the revocation of his security clearance due to his egregiously corrupt actions prior to the release of the Mueller Report.
James Clapper, former DNI in the Obama administration, seems to have a very bad case of TDS. He was interviewed by Morton Anderson on CNN, the biggest fake news network in the country. Clapper tried to redefine in the public’s mind what collusion is. This is Orwellian in nature.
Remember that Webster’s dictionary and Robert Mueller agree. Collusion equates to conspiracy. It is a secret agreement or cooperation especially for an illegal or deceitful purpose.
Clapper tried to equate the retweeting of messages from accounts that appeared to be American with the idea of collusion. Collusion/conspiracy requires at least two entities working together. Clapper’s intent appears to have been to connect criminality in the public’s mind with such activities.
“If there wasn’t active collusion proven, then I think what we have here is a case of passive collusion where in some cases, unwittingly, to include candidate Trump himself, who retweeted messages that had been planted by the Russians in social media,”
It is time for the American public to let these people know that their behavior is not acceptable. It is time for the people in Schiff’s district to let him know that he is no longer representing their interests. It is time for the Democrats to get back to governing the country, not putting on a sideshow for their fat cat donors.