Russians have been interfering not just in our election, but in the elections of multiple other countries.
Trump was briefed, confidentially, on the extent of the interference (hacking, propaganda, etc.) by the US (including info gathered by our allies) before the last debate.
Trump has grabbed on to and used nearly every piece of propaganda as his factual talking points during the election cycle (despite being not only told it is disinformation, but also given detailed information about how the US knows it is disinformation).
In the last debate (after his full briefing), when the question of Russian interference/ties came up, with Clinton talking as openly as she could (given the source of information), Trump repeatedly interrupted her with comments like, "she doesn't know," "How could she know that?", and "No one knows."
(My thoughts - how could Clinton explain, at that point, how she knew - and that Trump knew too - without violating national security interests?)
Much more - including very clear ties between Trump and Russia (including a period of belief by Russia that the RNC would yank Trump - during which time the disinformation campaign briefly stopped AND more recently, concern by Russia that Trump was not mentally stable enough to manipulate the way they expected him to be able to be manipulated - i.e. buyer's remorse).
A lot of what has been rumored, in one very well written, but complex piece. Not enough identified sources - but since the sources, to some extent, would have had to violate their or our national security restrictions on disclosure, it's understandable.
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