It is amazing how so many have no idea about how espionage works. Espionage is a long term systematic approach to implementing what you want. It is not a wham bam one shot where you get everything accomplished in a short time. The results of who won the election are not as important as how the information feed to American was accepted and what resulted from those perceptions.  Future uses of the same technique will be over years not days.  Then when the goal has been accomplished we will know what the intent was.  Until then it is the ability gloat behind closed doors knowing what worked this time.