Sure, the Russians working for the private company working the internet DID take out ads on various social media, but so did each party do the same. And the amount of spending by that Russian firm amounted to less than 1% of the money spent by either party for their candidate.
OK, now you are clear, you'll go with 2.D. "The "Russians" did take action during the 2016 elections which were intended to have some effect on the 2016 elections but those actions did not have more than a minimal effect (25% > "Effect" > 0%) on the outcome of the 2016 elections.".
Fair enough.
You may want to call that interference, but I like to look at the big picture, and the Russian effort one way or the other was a drop in the bucket compared to what was spent here by US entities to influence (interfere) in the election.
American entities are legally allowed to attempt to influence American elections. Russian entities are not legally allowed to attempt to influence American elections. There is a "slight" difference between those two statements (and it isn't the substitution of the word "Russian" for the word "American") can you work out what that difference is? [HINT - It's a three letter word that starts with the letter "n" and ends with the letter "t" and comes between the word "are" and the word "legally" in one of those two statements.]
And the high anxiety you display over this issue is very much making a mountain out of a mole hill.
I know, it's really silly to want to see elections conducted in actual compliance with the actual law - but I'm funny that way.
If a federal special prosecutor could find nothing after a year, WTF are you even worried about?
Well, for one thing I'm not so sure that I'd go alone with "a federal special prosecutor could find nothing" until AFTER the federal special prosecutor reports out stating that they found nothing that might have been actionable that had any reasonable likelihood of success in court.
Of course, if it were a federal special prosecutor that was investigating Ms. Clinton I'm prepared to bet that around 39(+/-3.5)% of the American people wouldn't be prepared to accept a report that said that they found nothing that might have been actionable that had a reasonable chance of success in court, then the immediate reaction would be to call for the appointment of another federal special prosecutor to investigate the conduct of the first federal special prosecutor AND to reopen the investigation into Ms. Clinton.
And, of course if that second federal special prosecutor reported out that they found nothing that might have been actionable that had a reasonable chance of success in court then around 39(+/-3.5)% of the American people wouldn't be prepared to accept that report and the immediate reaction would be to call for the appointment of another federal special prosecutor to investigate the conduct of the first two federal special prosecutors AND to reopen the investigation into Ms. Clinton.
And, of course if that third federal special prosecutor reported out that they found nothing that might have been actionable that had a reasonable chance of success in court then around 39(+/-3.5)% of the American people wouldn't be prepared to accept that report and the immediate reaction would be to call for the appointment of another federal special prosecutor to investigate the conduct of the first three federal special prosecutors AND to reopen the investigation into Ms. Clinton.
And, of course if that fourth federal special prosecutor reported out that they found nothing that might have been actionable that had a reasonable chance of success in court then around 39(+/-3.5)% of the American people wouldn't be prepared to accept that report and the immediate reaction would be to call for the appointment of another federal special prosecutor to investigate the conduct of the first three federal special prosecutors AND to reopen the investigation into Ms. Clinton.
And, of course if that firth federal special prosecutor reported out that they found nothing that might have been actionable that had a reasonable chance of success in court then around 39(+/-3.5)% of the American people wouldn't be prepared to accept that report and the immediate reaction would be to call for the appointment of another federal special prosecutor to investigate the conduct of the first four federal special prosecutors AND to reopen the investigation into Ms. Clinton.
And, of course, if that fifth ...