Theories are theories, of whatever type or kind, until proven or disproven. Maybe is an adverb that means the matter remains possible until clearly proven otherwise. Do you think that maybe the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians, or had dealings with them that were not legal, or that maybe Trump has attempted to thwart justice? Maybe? Thinking about and considering it? Waiting for the investigation to conclude? Congratulations fellow atheist, you are dealing with a "maybe".

@David1955 There's also the discinct difference between what a conspiracy theory is and what a scientific theory is. But I suspect I'm not telling you anything you don't know.

@chicagojcb The delicious irony here is that I speculated just days ago here that Trump and the crazies in his party would conspire to neutralise the Russia Investigation by concocting a false flag or similar, and lo and behold it's happening, over these Memos. I am beginning to think that in the past they were simply better at conspiring to lie, discredit and divert attention than they are now, or maybe we are wise to them, or the media are sharper. Back in the 60s they got away with stuff they couldn't now. Ultimately it's a matter of history, and we might be surprised how many crazy conspiracy theories prove out in the future. I'm old enough to remember when people speculated that the US conspired to facilitate US escalation in the Vietnam war. Laughable, until we found out about the Bay of Tonkin false flag and the Pentagon Papers. Things are never that cut and dried in this world. Certainly not in the US.

Ok. What about the conspiracy theory Woodward and Bernstein had in mind when they went after the Nixon Adminstration in the early 1970s?

@David1955 That was not a theory. It was a set of facts which led Wood and Bernstein to do great investigative journalism.