And, Putin did not want Trump, he just hated Hillary for what she said about his election being fraudulent and blamed her for the protests. After all, the Russians did not think they would be successful. They just wanted to divide the country by convincing some idiots the Russians changed the election results.
See, this shit post of yours is what happens when you comment on something you know nothing about because you're lazy, cowardly, or both.
Literally in Volume I on Page 5, Mueller said this:
The campaign evolved from a generalized program designed in 2014 and 2015 to undermine the US. electoral system, to a targeted operation that by early 2016 favored candidate Trump and disparaged candidate Clinton.
At the same time that the IRA operation began to focus on supporting candidate Trump in early 2016, the Russian government employed a second form of interference: cyber intrusions (hacking) and releases of hacked materials damaging to the Clinton Campaign.
