>>“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press,” July 27, 2016

So you're saying that after Russians were accused of hacking the DNC and the illegal HRC email server, Trump's invitation at his press conference for Russia to find the 30,000 emails illegally erased by HRC, makes him the crook? If Russia actually did have the emails- what does that make HRC?

>>Personally I find the rules forbidding contact paranoid - how should a possible future prez come to a running start if not having contacted other important govs ahead of being sworn in?
>>HC would have had it easier, as she knew most of the players, forbidding any/most contact as such is unrealistic to me.

This relies on a very old rule that never had been used, with Flynn not charged for communication with Russians about US affairs while he was still a private citizen, but for lying about the content of his discussion. In fact there was nothing illegal about the content of his discussion, but this is one of the process crimes being used to take people out in the US at present. The best defense is to parrot a certain politician who answered all such questions by "I cannot recall."