Who’s Conspiracy Mongering Now?

[m.knox]

But unable to substantiate any such allegation, the media reach for an error so bad it has a name—the equivocation fallacy. Thus Jared Kushner is accused of, after the election, trying to “collude” with Russia in settling the Syrian war—the ad absurdum case of trying to make those seven letters c-o-l-l-u-d-e substitute for proof of something nefarious.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/whos-conspiracy-mongering-now-1496792511