The problem is the corruption of our electoral system. It's also the mil-spec Psychological Warfare operators such as Robert Mercer, Steve Bannon, and Cambridge Analytica, as reported* this summer by The Guardian. I would expect Russia is a red herring, though that's not to say their interference in our liberal democracy should go unchallenged, though to be fair we must weigh that against our own foreign alien interference in their politics, when and where that actually did occur, even if well-intentioned. Maybe this was actually a reprisal for something we did** first?

* ( https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy )
** ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/07/21/did-the-united-states-interfere-in-russian-elections/ )