Democrats and other critics have seized on those communications to make their case that the Trump campaign may have worked with Russian agents during the election, or at least passively let those agents work against Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid.
Let's pretend that any of this is even true.
WTF was Trump supposed to do about it? Borrow Obama's nuclear football and launch??!??
I think the article is trying to say that Trump’s team didn’t work with the Russians but knew what they were doing and did nothing about it.