@blatham,
I don't doubt the truth of what you wrote. This is the normal stuff of politics as was the Clinton campaign's investment in a manufactured hit piece on Trump and subsequent efforts to spread the "news around.
I was also intrigued by the statement of Putin's goals in his efforts to use internet sources to disrupt the 2016 election in the title line to your link. Undermining target country confidence and the health of normal political processes has long been the motivation for Russia's and the United States' disinformation efforts directed at each other and at other nations targeted by them. It is implausible to suppose that Putin say any advantage to Russia in the election of Trump per se, rather, he like Hillary expected a Clinton victory and was simply trying to undermine the election process for its own sake.
Had Putin expected a possible Trump victory he would likely have paid more attention to Trump's campaign objectives regarding our energy independence and the exploitation of ,then recent, developments in fracking and directional drilling to vastly expand our production of petroleum and natural gas - the export of which was and is the chief source of hard currency for the Russian economy. In addition Trump declared his opposition to the construction of Nord Stream II, the second of two Russian pipelines under the Baltic directly to Germany, bypassing Belarus, Ukraine and Poland, and imposed sanctions which have halted completion of Nord Stream II - a process that continues today. Both actions strike at the core of Putin's economic interests for Russia.