NYT : "Trump Jr. Was Told in Email of Russian Effort to Aid Campaign"

[epicurean]

sundin13 said:

epicurean said:

They could easily get out of that if no info was exchanged, or even further, if there's no proof info was exchanged. 

Even though I don't think for a second that this is actually the case, DTJ could simply see he met with them to see if what they said was real, then he would report it. If everything someone offered in email was true I'd be a millionaire by helping a Prince in Africa get his money out of a bank.

A conspiracy charge involves a plan to commit a crime, it does not require the crime to have actually been committed. 

Also, that last metaphor is a laughable false equivalency and a disastrous way to run a political campaign. 

I definetly never claimed that Trumps campaign ran anything well. From everything I've read it was a complete disaster. I have no idea how he won.

After reading up more - it appears that it is not a crime to meet with a Russian lawyer, OR a Russian Government Lawyer, or even a member of a foreign gov't when running for office.  The closest thing that could be found that is a crime here someone posted earlier - that you receive something of value in return. From what I've read, that has never been inferred as being anything other that money (or a valuable object). It's never been construed to mean information.

I know this is from FoxNews, which is obviously biased, but it seems to say theres really nothing here, even at its worst, that could be considered a crime.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/07/11/gregg-jarrett-donald-trump-jr-has-broken-no-law.html