Only a fool or a right-winger (but I repeat myself) would believe that the rhetoric from the Whitehouse about Russians being bad actors was anything but deliberately false news to create the impression that Trump isn't in Putin's pocket. He always has been. Trump has never once criticized or even acknowledged Putin's interference in the US election, despite 17 intelligence agencies and the bi-partisan Congressional Intelligence Committee showing him the evidence. Those are serious charges, and any other president would have denounced it. Unless of course,  the president won because of Russian interference. 
Now, they'll pretend to kiss and make up, and everyone is supposed to believe that this wasn't the plan all along.