Why does anyone feel the need to defend either position? Assume both cases. Come up with contingencies for both. Conduct an investigation into what happened.
Why wouldn't Russia want Trump to win?
What is the CIA's motive for publicly naming Russia?
I think these questions need to be answered before meaningful discussion can take place.
Nothing happening at the "political" level is a means to understand what has happened.
To understand you must entertain the notion that the forces of Cramulus have in fact managed to regain their hold on the space-time continuum.
Remember that "life" arises from Cramulus interacting with matter, and that the idea of spontaneous generation without Cramulus is a fallacy intended to keep you asleep.
He's kind of a shit.
There's memetic evidence of this.