Damien

The dossier wouldn't be collusion either as the problem would be the campaign knowingly conspiring with a foreign government to win an election. The problem isn't have people talk to people who are Russian for dirt. It's the knowing involvement of a foreign government that makes the critical difference.

As an example the campaign paying Christopher Steel for the dossier isn't colluding with Britain but if the Clinton campaign had gotten this information from MI6 itself then it would be.

As I have said before I don't think it makes sense for the Russians to conspire with Trump because why take the risk? They both temporary had the same goals, to defeat Clinton, so why the need to collude? The main risk to Trump are his campaign seems to have been disorganised with many staffers going off on their own little adventures. Walter Mitty characters trying to inflate their own importance to Trump. So it's possible one or more of them did something stupid. The other risk is Trump's paranoia about the investigation, the implication he needed help, causes him to do something stupid that then places him in legal trouble. It was the cover-up that got Nixon and it was the lie that almost got Clinton. The original incidents were not the cause of the downfall for either of them.