Still murky is the solid rationale for Putin to attempt to sway the election to Trump.  A lot of assumptions are needed to support the premise.  Scenarios can be outlined but they rely on guesses, some educated most not.  Putin knew Clinton from decades of public and private actions, records, you name it.  Perhaps his oligarchs steered him towards Trump, making the case that a kleptocrat was a more lucrative fit with Putins' kleptocracy.  But that begs the question - why would Putin want a drunken bobble head on a skateboard in charge of arguably the globally dominant economic and military power?  Especially when Russia is pretty much none of that.  And then Congress plays the Trump card, in all it's levels of rationale, blow-back and years of accumulating dysfunctionality.