Yes Collusion!

Many who are pro-impeachment or tend in that direction concede that Mueller’s Volume I supports Trump’s repeated claim  “No Collusion.” Trump and his friendly media go so far as to say that the Trump Campaign was “exonerated” on collusion.

Not so. There is in the Mueller Report itself evidence, summaries of evidence, and conclusions about evidence that strongly support what we would ordinarily call “collusion” between Trump and the Trump campaign on one side and agents or intermediaries of Russia or Wikileaks on the other. In Mueller’s judgment, this evidence is insufficient to support a prosecution under Justice Department guidelines for conspiracy or any other crime in the collusion neighborhood. However, that is far from a conclusion that there was in fact no collusion.

Trump, Cohen and the Crime-Fraud Exception to Attorney-Client Privilege

Private communications between lawyer and client for the purpose of giving and receiving legal advice are normally privileged.  Currently in the news is a restriction on the privilege called the “crime-fraud exception.”