The report also included a telling timeline. The Russians had accelerated their strikes on America’s grid in March 2016, the same month Russia hacked Podesta and the DNC. Eight months later, even the Kremlin was surprised when their man was voted into the Oval Office. But instead of causing them to back off, Trump’s election only emboldened them. Under his watch, Russia invisibly worked their way into an untold number of nuclear and power plants around the country.
