Jon Podesta fell for a phishing scheme, which happens every day to all companies, and organizations alike. He clicked on something he should not have, then gave his username and password to the same company that should already know it. Everyone, who is not ridiculously stupid knows not to fall for this type of scheme. Unfortunately, it released some information that was useful to someone in Russia. Then come the 12 indictments of companies apparently tied to the Kremlin who acquired potentially damaging information about the DNC. The entire DNC was as dumb as Podesta. What to do with that information... give it or sell it to whomever is willing to buy.
The DNC wants to try to budget the country, when they couldn't even keep their own funds straight, they were literally broke.
A few of the companies in Russia indicted were willing to come to the US to defend themselves, but the US Government did not want to do it because they have no real concrete evidence, they were not planning on anyone actually responding.
So, if you want to call a phishing scheme, "hacking the election" be my guest. And if you want to call creating false identities on Social Media Outlets to advocate for Trump (they say there were falsehoods, which I have not seen), interfering with the election, be my guest. But that is all that "Russia" did. And for people that don't understand that "Russia" is a country, and not everything there is done by the Government, but they may have been involved at some point.
I think the Chinese interfered just as much, if not more than any other country.... but no one is investigating that because there is no demand and no outcome that would possibly get Trump impeached, so move to Russia where he has business dealings. The only reason this has happened is because people can't understand why Trump wanted to get along with Russia instead of staying adversaries. He tried to do the same thing with North Korea, it is the way he is, if he had business in North Korea, they would have investigated that. Sanctions are still there for Russia... Obama assured us before the election that there was no way for anyone to interfere, but according to you and 18 other intelligence agencies, they did, so maybe we should investigate the Obama administration for allowing the below explanation to be attainable.
Either way, these kinds of things are done every election, because every country in the world has a stake in the outcome of our election, just like you, why do you care so much? You don't live here. You could be a hack from another country just trying to sway us from voting for Trump in 2020 for all we know.
The term used by the media "hacking the election" is more of a falsehood than anything Russia could actually do. Many people on the left think that they actually accessed our voting system and changed votes to Trump.
Obama told Trump back in 2016 that he needed to focus on getting votes instead of whining about ways the election could be favored towards Hillary. I think it is time for Democrats and the left to take Obama's advise and accept the results. I would have accepted the results if Hillary won, but you are intolerant of different thinking, which is exactly what you say about "Trumpanzees".
Trump was asked time and time again before he won, if he would accept the outcome of the election after it was all said and done. People scalded him for being kind of vague on his answer, now it is the side that asked the questions that will not accept it. A bit hypocritical if you ask me.