Undermine democracy itself: Hint heavily that the vote is rigged, that the system is broken, that the nation’s ideals are trash. In South Florida, Cubans got angry missives about President Barack Obama’s Cuba policy, warning that Hillary Clinton would continue it. Provocative trolls and websites that promoted conspiracy theories were a part of the Trump campaign, too. So similar were their methods and language that it is not easy to pull the fake Russian stories and the fake Trump stories apart: Both the Russian trolls and Trump trolls made up wild stories from the hacked emails, which served the same purpose for both. Given the frequency of contacts between Trump campaign staff and a wide range of Russians, I find it impossible to believe he did not.

Source: Washington Post February 25, 2018 20:26 UTC