From Stephen Kotkin (“American Hustle, What Mueller Found—and Didn’t Find—About Trump and Russia)” in Foreign Affairs, July/August 2019):

“ . . . Russians approaching the Trump campaign could not figure out whom to contact, who was in charge, or who mattered. . . . Putin, supposedly, could help Trump get elected but could not talk to him, despite the publically expressed eagerness of Trump and his people to enter into contact and make deals.”

Jared Kushner is quoted as saying, “They thought we colluded, but we couldn’t even collude with our local offices.”

Apparently, the Trump campaign was so poorly organized that the Russians couldn’t figure out who to talk to. Trump’s people didn’t collude with the Russians because, in Kotkin’s opinion, they were too inept to do so.