First off, RG, you have no clue who "Putin loathes."  Unfortunately, such a statement is so typical of the "post-truth" media.

Secondly, I heard yesterday, that the so-called hacking consisting of sending a phishing email to the dems requesting that they reset their passwords.  The dudes, with incredible ignorance of today's phishing scams, disclosed their own email information.  The "hackers" apparently then just used the disclosed information to log in to email accounts and copy the emails.  This does not require expertise or Russian government assistance.  I get phishing scams every day and never am suckered into sending my email information.  Since the so-called hacking was a simple phishing scam, millions of persons world wide could have done it with no government involvement.  Saying Putin was involved is an incredible stretch.