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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMalcolm Nance:
Calling a conspiracy a collusion is like calling a murder a manslaughter.
bdamomma
(63,875 posts)calling it a conspiracy. Period. The evidence is out there, plain as day, or in our faces.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)he is an expert. He calls it as it is!
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,350 posts)There might be a limit of 13 allowed. I'm not real clear about that.
Conspiracy, collusion, fraud -- just ITTMFA! (And that's INDICT or IMPEACH, dealer's choice)!
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)when in fact, Nance has been a republican up until trump took office.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Indict (or impeach) Trump The Motherfucker Already?.....
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,350 posts)Indict (or Impeach) The Treasonous MotherFucker Already.
(The second T copied from malaise).
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Nitram
(22,822 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Nitram
(22,822 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)We never miss it.
Caliman73
(11,738 posts)Like many other terms, it seems to be used interchangeably with conspiracy, but carries a different meaning when talking about criminal acts and civilly liable actions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collusion
Though collusion can be illegal it is not always, which is probably why Nance and many others, including me, think that we should be always talking about conspiracy when it comes to Trump's dealings with Russia.
One poster said that, "collusion with an enemy is treason", which I agree with in concept, however conspiring defraud the United States with an adversary nation like Russia sounds much more legally and ethically damning than collusion.
The crime (well, one of the many) for which Trump is being investigated is Conspiracy to defraud. When he goes off on his rants about collusion, it is both a term that he is more familiar with from his shady business dealing all these decades, but to Trump and others, collusion is not as big a deal. Conspiracy is the term that should be used.