Foreign nationals cannot spend money to influence a US election unless they are sending that money to the Clinton Foundation. It's still a waste of time and money. You can almost guarantee that these actions by the scary Russians resulted in ZERO sway on public opinion.  They need a boogeyman and so Russian fear mongering is everywhere. With a special investigation searching for a crime with unlimited spending and time - of course they will come up with something eventually. It does not make it have any more value or go back to the original intent of the special counsel.  It's been known for years that Russians bought ads on Facebook. Why are the higher ups at Facebook not included in this indictment as well? Oh wait, can't have that. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/technology/facebook-russian-political-ads.html Russian meddling is a made up theory that was required to justify FISA warrants to spy on the opposition using a weaponized DOJ/FBI/etc.