That comment would never come in as evidence of anything for good reason.
I can be complicit in ruining the dinner, and I may have conspired to ruin the dinner, and I may have a powerful motive to ruin the dinner, but for any of that to be a crime, ruining the dinner has to be a criminal act, which means it has to violate a criminal statute.
There is a possible crime: campaign finance law, but this case is being presented as election interference, not an FECA violation.