I don't doubt that there was a foreign effort to influence the election. It's always been so and it always will be so. Not too long ago the Obama administration tried to influence the Israeli election, for example.  Boldly stating that Russia meddled in the US election is really not much of a statement. It doesn't really tell us anything. When Kathleen Wynne was taking shots at Trump, was that meddling? When Ambassador Chretien expressed preference between candidates, was that meddling or just a boneheaded diplomacy? The bold and naked truth is that Trump won fair and square and no amount of the supposed meddling would've changed that. There's a case that can be made that Wikileaks had an effect on the election, but that can hardly be blamed on the Russians, especially in the light of this week's interview with Wikileaks founder. I think that the elites and the political establishment are very angry. They threw everything they had behind Jeb and Hillary and lost.