Oh look, the Russia bots have been busy for a long time now:

Cyber expert says signatures on 2014 “Alaska Back to Russia” petition on White House website looked to be automated Russian propaganda bots

— Sean Cockerham (@seancockerham) March 30, 2017

That’s on top of the evidence that Russians were behind a move for California to secede.

Everything Russia is doing is part of a long term disinformation campaign designed to weaken the US. Targeting the 2016 election makes perfect sense as part of that strategy.