[conservatism_IS_compassion]

But the notion that he won the presidency through collusion with Russia is implausible and is wholly without evidence.

No it isn’t. Trump publicly called on Russia to help the US get to the bottom of what actually had been (note, past tense - the server no longer existed by then) on the server that Hillary wiped with a cloth ^Bleachbit®.

That is the “evidence."

[silverleaf]

At a campaign rally candidate Trump made a joke that perhaps Russia could help find Hillary’s missing 33,,000 emails

That is “ a call for Russian assistance”?