Like many who testified before Congress, the US intelligence agencies, and even taciturn Robert Mueller have raised alarms that the Russians are very much already involved in interfering in the upcoming 2020 election, with the understanding that it is Trump who they would be illegally assisting. That the sinister Mitch McConnell is still sitting on millions of dollars to try to bolster election security is just one more sign that the GOP is enabling Trump in betraying the US by becoming, in part, an enabler of Putin’s goals.
After all, why would Putin both so openly and illicitly support Trump if he wasn’t doing his bidding? Trump’s Ukraine betrayal, his support for the Russian annexation of Crimea and sympathy for the Russian enclaves in Ukraine becoming independent fulfill a key Putin goal.