the thing is, so very many people around the campaign had such ties.
Bottom line is there is no way in hell that the Russians would have genually preferred a strong-on-defense Trump/Pence team over a very weak democrat one, particularly while they are in the process of basically restoring their evil empire.
Comrade Obama had bent over backwards demonstrating his promised “flexibilty” to Putin on such critical matters as missile defense and nukes, including the Iran nuke deal that Putin loved so much and claimed to have had a major hand in formulating.
Add this to Obama’s near crippling of our military under his “fundamental transformation” program. Then there was his and Hillary’s insane Uranium One deal, which handed the Russians over 20% of our uranium production!