e for a criminal referral. The article highlighted that intelligence officials concluded that Russia did interfere with the election by hacking into the Democratic National Committee's computer network and the personal emails of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman. Special counsel Robert S. Mueller's $32 million 2019

orcing the notion that it was initiated "for the purpose" of affecting the presidential election. The chief evidence of collusion is the hacking of the Democratic National Committee's servers. But nothing in the public record suggests the Trump campaign aided that effort. The collusion narrative therefore hinges on the more gener