republicans will try and defend the legitimacy of Trump with the classic everybody cheats defense
That what's coming. If you follow college athletics whenever a school gets busted for violations there are fans that always shout everybody cheats therefore we had to cheat to to compete. Same thing will happen with Trump. They will say maybe he did cheat to get elected by colluding with Russians,but Hilary was cheating to. So Trump had to cheat in response to keep the election from being stolen from him. Therefore his cheating was justifiable and he is still legitimate.
Never mind there isn't a shred of evidence Hilary was cheating not even circumstantial other than the lying Trump campaign and Russians say so. They will not let facts get in the way of their lies.
Even back when republicans were claiming there was no evidence the Trump campaign colluded with Russians there at minimum was a mountain of circumstantial evidence falling around us everyday