The hit piece you posted makes this logic > Hillary was supposed to win > Russia tried to disrupt our e******n > Hillary didn’t win > ergo Russian intervention was intended and was designed to help Trump.

I am aware that schools haven’t taught classical ‘logic’ as a subject for 20 years or more, but your reasoning is not logical.

Putin didn’t care who won, he probably favoured Hillary because he could game her some more, like the U1 deal, but his game is to weaken his enemy. His goal was payback for the US meddling in many e******ns worldwide that disrupt other countries and plans he had. There is plenty of evidence that Russian interference acted against both candidates. The goal was simply to cause a loss of faith in the v****g system and the political system. Given that Russian social media attempts were pretty wimpy actually, that effort has been wildly successful - the country has never been so distrustful of the political system as now.

The second thread here is that Putin wants a strong Russia, he doesn’t want the success of a New World Order run by the bankster families. So given the chance to kick them in the ghoulies and weaken them a bit, he’ll take it - regardless of what that does to US politics. Any common cause he has made with Trump since the e******n will be rooted in that line of thinking, not for Trump’s sake.

At this juncture, Russia’s goals align more with the goals of the patriots, which makes Russia a perfect boogeyman for scaring the lefty base.