When the news manages to go a few days without talking about "Russia" and leveling collusion on the President, I would say that the narrative is truly dead; they themselves have let it go. The only thing I can be sure of in the entire ordeal was that the Russian government did indeed prefer this outcome of the Trump administration than the Hillary campaign, whom they reasonably saw as a far worse threat; as you said, they offered funding to those who were "friendly" to their advance where they could. However, at this point we know that the hack on the DNC was not remote, it was inside from an inside device such as a specially modified flash drive and by someone who specifically had access, who many theorize to have been Seth Rich, and that it was not on behalf of another state based on how it was transferred. As far as voting and election warfare itself? Certainly not Russians - thus far the review is showing plenty of fraudulent votes, but not yet any from a foreign source. The sitting President is no "illegal President" by any metric.

It helps none that the people the Trump administration did meet with in the infamous "collaboration" were there by the opposing party's actions, no less special exceptions. There's some information to suggest it was intentional, but as the proof showed, they left when they realized there wasn't intelligence to be gathered; going so far as to text someone to receive a phone call so they could leave.

I believe the degree of failure in the narrative to be massive, [@Andreyich]. I mean they [i]were[/i] caught red handed that it was a hoax for views and that there was no real evidence.