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Russia Hackers Had Targets Worldwide, Beyond US Election (apnews.com)
Raphael Satter, Jeff Donn, and Justin Myers, reporting for Associated Press: The hackers who disrupted the U.S. presidential election had ambitions well beyond Hillary Clinton's campaign, targeting the emails of Ukrainian officers, Russian opposition figures, U.S. defense contractors and thousands of others of interest to the Kremlin, according to a previously unpublished digital hit list obtained by The Associated Press. The list provides the most detailed forensic evidence yet of the close alignment between the hackers and the Russian government, exposing an operation that stretched back years and tried to break into the inboxes of 4,700 Gmail users across the globe -- from the pope's representative in Kiev to the punk band Pussy Riot in Moscow. "It's a wish list of who you'd want to target to further Russian interests," said Keir Giles, director of the Conflict Studies Research Center in Cambridge, England, and one of five outside experts who reviewed the AP's findings. He said the data was "a master list of individuals whom Russia would like to spy on, embarrass, discredit or silence."
A broad Russian strategy rather than targeting US election specifically.
There is certainly evidence for that. See https://medium.com/dfrlab/electionwatch-russia-and-referendums-in-catalonia-192743efcd76.
Yet multiple investigations have turned up absolutely no substantial evidence that she did anything illegal.
Meanwhile, Trump's associates are bailing out left and right when proof of their wrongdoing is found and members are starting to get arrested and indicted for real crimes.
You have a hilariously stupid definition of "less so"