Mueller Investigation did not establish criminal conspiracy between Trump campaign and Russia on election interference

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“Collusion is not a specific offense or theory of liability found in the United States Code, nor is it a term of art in federal criminal law.  For those reasons, the Office’s focus in analyzing questions of joint criminal liability was on conspiracy as defined in federal law.”

Additionally, Mueller made it clear that his team used the term coordination in their report.

“Like collusion, coordination does not have a settled definition in federal criminal law. We understood coordination to require an agreement—tacit or express—between the Trump campaign and the Russian government on election interference. That requires more than the two parties taking actions that were informed by or responsive to the other’s actions or interests. We applied the term coordination in that sense when stating in the report that the investigation did not establish that the Trump campaign coordinated with the Russian government…,” explained Mueller.

In his report, Mueller found evidences that members of the Trump campaign had contacts with the Russian government. For example, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort met with Konstantin Kilimnik, his long-time business associate, who has connection to Russian intelligence on August 2, 2016.