She has a point. It appears, that Trump, in all his pompousness and often brazen stupidity, was clever -. not intelligent - enouigh, to not himaself directly have strategic conversations with russian operatives. He HAD ditrect talks with Putin, with no US aides nearby, by him overriding his own administration, which does count for something, but had he had such conversations before, Mueller would have both known and documented it in his report.
He used the classic Mafia boss strategy of letting underlings take his wishes into action, like his former fixer described in his testimony:
He does not spell it out in direct wordsa, but he makes sure you understand and do what he wants you to do, and thus trying do not break all these laws himself.
In the end, I believe, he will be brought to justice by some lesser crime, which is proable. And yes, I believe that is why he tries so hard to keep his financial documentation secret. Because they can and will break him