Questioning the Legitimacy of Elections

Originally article written in Telegram.

Trump won the US Presidential Election, upsetting more than a few (including the author)

There has been a lot of hullabaloo and panic in the Mainstream American Media about the Russian interference in the American Elections to help Donald Trump. The nature of this Russian interference is at the moment theorised to be like this : Hacker groups connected to Russian Government apparently targeted the US state department and US White House by a sending pools of Phising Emails. They were able to breach The DNC servers as well as John Podesta's account.The information thus acquired was then handed over to WikiLeaks, whose head, Julian Assange had a lot of reason to hate Hillary Clinton. The information then released had a detrimental effect on a Particular Clinton's chances of being President.

The Democratic National Committee was compromised almost completely by the email leak: members of the DNC sent emails to each other deriding Bernie Sanders Campaign (Bernie was Hillary's Primary Democratic competitor). Which darkened Hillary in the eyes of many Younger Idealistic Liberals, who had supported Bernie Enthusiastically.

A Server (allegedly) hacked by Russia next to a cabinet broken into during the Watergate Scandal in the DNC office; The nature of the two happenings were intrinsically different. 

It is impossible to know how all these controversies and relocations affected the outcome of the US Presidential elections. Yet, the Mainstream American Media Establishments are fawning over this supposed interference for Trump by Russia.
Rival Nations will of course try to influence each others elections and politics in a way favorable to them. Trump and Putin hit it off; Putin was likely swayed to support Trump cause his opponent winning would have severely impacted the vanning Russian Economy, already crippled by sanctions.
Trump, in his initial urge to appear as a serious candidate, claimed to know Vladimir Putin "because they were featured in the same 60 minutes Episode". He might have walked down that claim later, but he appeared warmer option to Russia Than Hillary Clinton, who would have in all probability continued America's policy to Russia.
The allegations that Russia was behind the DNC and Podesta hacks came in October, and it did become a news story that was the centerpiece for some time.
But it was only after the election that reports came out, leaked from the CIA, very less, that Russia attempted to influence the elections.
The situation being very ironic - CIA complaining about a Right Wing President installed by a foreign power (apparently) is one thing.
The fact of the matter however is that those questioning the legitimacy of elections are wrong. Well they're blurring the definition between influencing the election and delegitimising the election.
What Russia is believed to have done is influence the election, not 'hack' the elections. The election is undoubtedly legitimate: there is absolutely no proof that the votes tallied have been manipulated in any manner.
Is Trump's election a cause of worry for traditional American foreign policymakers? Surely. But he has not been installed by an outside foreign power, he was elected by the American Citizen, and by the American system. Blaming Russia for your loss is not ingenious from the part of Democrats.
Let's see what the future holds.