Donald Trump expected voters to believe every nasty rumor about Hillary Clinton and enough of them gleefully complied to get him 306 electoral votes and therefore the presidency. (He also expects them to believe this is a "massive landslide victory" when in fact, it was less than most electoral victories. Has any person ever elected to office believed his supporters were so stupid?)
At the same time, he doesn't think anyone should believe the unanimous conclusions of the three main intelligence agencies that Russia, at the direction of his dear friend Vladimir Putin, hacked computers to try and help Trump beat Clinton. That, he insists, is unproven bull.
This is why it's a waste of time to debate Trump's surrogates and supporters. All the negative rumors about his enemies are unquestionably true. All the investigations (and stuff like that silly scientific consensus about Climate Change) that he doesn't want people to believe are lies, biased reporting, unproven allegations by those losers he crushed, etc. Must be kinda nice to live in a world where reality is whatever you say it is.
Anyway, Fred Kaplan tells us about those intelligence agency conclusions and what they mean now and might mean in the future. Read it but don't bother arguing with anyone who doesn't want it to be so.