I've held off judgement on the issue of if Russia had cooperative help from an American source.    I don't agree that this is 'normal ' behavior, at least I don't recall a foreign nation revealing privately held information surreptitiously stolen.     Our nation has been fouling computors in nuclear development in both Iran and in Korea.     It seems this is going to be the new battlefield for awhile.

The President might not have been in the place if he wouldn't have ask in public for the Russians to release information on the Clinton campaign.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-clinton-emails.html?_r=0    

Inciting high levels of paranoia can work against the President.   Being as he seems to see conspiracies in most things, one has to believe that he also believes there is real value in them among the power elite.    He seems to forget that even his fans recognize he works in those very same circles of private power.   The 'one honest man', unlikely