If this Washington Post article is accurate, how the hell can this country allow the election of Donald Trump to stand?

A case like this is exactly why the Electoral College was created in the first place. It’s not supposed to be a rubber stamp. The Electoral College was intended to be a last line of defense against American democracy being subverted by special interests, or a foreign power.

We have now reached the crossing of that Rubicon.

The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter.

Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, according to U.S. officials. Those officials described the individuals as actors known to the intelligence community and part of a wider Russian operation to boost Trump and hurt Clinton’s chances.

“It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected,” said a senior U.S. official briefed on an intelligence presentation made to U.S. senators. “That’s the consensus view.”