Well let's see shall we? Through critical reading of an obviously biased article I understand that "Russian Government Officials" contacted BOTH campaigns, and clearly someone associated with the Trump Campaign met someone, probably in the Russian Press (otherwise known as the Russian Government, much like how our Press has been lo the last 8 years).

Then we deduce that said Trump campaign person, possibly excampaign manager Manafort, concluded that a previous business relationship was not akin to a future political relationship, and they stopped. Having contact.
 
Further we see that while the Trumpster was not fearful of speaking his mind to the press, foreign or domestic, HRC was frightened to death of saying anything that might appear to be an original thought that could get printed.

Trump not renouncing Putin puts me in mind of...oh say... Obama? Not renouncing Ahmadinejad? In the last election? Something about leaving the door open...?

Can I help you with anything else?