Let's assume that Putin has an axe to grind regarding Christopher Steele, an ' intelligence expert' on Putin's Russia and wanted to set him up for  discreditation...taking down Orbis with him...then feeding him good information laced with false information related to Trump was a good way of doing it.

Steele is in hiding, there is chaos in the USA, Hillary gets destroyed with  the new US President placed in a difficult situation preoccupied with fighting  off the false news with Putin's intelligence  feeding the fires with further false information through social media at will.