2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Trump & Putin. Yes, It's Really a Thing - Josh Marshall [View all]sofa king
(10,857 posts)... That's espionage:
(b) Whoever, for the purpose aforesaid, and with like intent or reason to believe, copies, takes, makes, or obtains, or attempts to copy, take, make, or obtain, any sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, document, writing, or note of anything connected with the national defense; or
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793
Recall that Trump and Clinton are running for the office of Commander in Chief, so the email server break-in is inextricably connected to the national defense.
Also note that at the Republican Convention, Trump staffers intervened and removed language calling for material aid to the Ukraine:
"Trump staffers in the room, who are not delegates but are there to oversee the process, intervened," Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin wrote of the meeting at which the wording was changed. "By working with pro-Trump delegates, they were able to get the issue tabled while they devised a method to roll back the language."
http://www.voanews.com/content/proposed-gop-stance-on-ukraine-sparks-controversy/3429297.html
So there is already circumstantial evidence for collusion between Trump and the Russians.
And there is no statute of limitations, either. This will hang over Trump's head for the rest of his life.