The sleight of hand here is conflating the terms "contacts" and "collusion" with something that is illegal, namely, conspiracy.
Every incoming and new administration in the history of administrations has contacted, and been contacted by, foreign representatives, and found some common interest they have colluded on. But only Trump admin contacts and collusions were conspiratorial. And here is the big point: there isn't any evidence for conspiracy because there can be no evidence of something that didn't happen and when the conspiracy only exists in the minds of leftists with Trump Derangement Syndrome.
So, we end up with these sad, sad people who just can't let go of something that they needed to be true, but they cant find the evidence, so they connect unrelated dots and then say, "See! It is true! The evidence is there!" Lol.
My favorite is when they cite all of the indictments. We see it above with references to Manafort. What was Manafort indicted and convicted of? Hmmm. How about the rest of them? Not a conspiracy with Russia to steal the election. Why? Because there was no conspiracy with Russia to do anything. This is where postmodern leftism hits a dead end - when "truth" in their minds is based only on their own narrative and they have to actually put up evidence and they are put in an arena where someone can blow massive holes in their narrative.
We had a narrative on our side too. We felt like the entire Russia thing was a set up from within the Obama administration and The Resistance carryovers into the Trump administration. Slowly, the evidence for that starting trickling in and eventually there was enough to know it was true. Let's see what happens when the dust of Durham's probe is settled, but right now, we have one indictment and guilty plea where an FBI attorney falsified evidence (an email) that was used to get a FISA warrant that kept their conspiracy - A REAL ONE - going. Stay tuned. I suspect the fun is just beginning - unless Biden wins and Durham is selling insurance next February.