Freud called this "Kettle Logic" after a story where a man returns a broken kettle and says: 1. That he had returned the kettle undamaged 2. That it was already damaged when he borrowed it 3. That he had never borrowed it in the first placehttps://twitter.com/aidnmclaughlin/status/1023974964200914944 …
It's not the same thing because in this case conspiracy is in fact a crime, as Giuliani,who has prosecuted numerous RICO cases, knows.
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"Conspiracy" has to be a a conspiracy to commit some SPECIFIC CRIME. You can't just charge people with "conspiracy" in some abstract sense. People are specifically using the term "collusion" to avoid needing to make the argument that trump conspired to commit some specific crime
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Like, are you saying that the Trump campaign was involved in a conspiracy to hack into John Podesta or the DNC's emails? Or something else? If Trump simply discussed with Russians on campaign strategy in general, that would be 'collusion' but not illegal.
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