It’s not quite what it appears. Not the voting systems and not having anything to do with Trump or the outcome of the election. Just about trying to influence people on social media. But this is so they can argue the election “was interfered with.”

Via The Hill:

Special counsel Robert Mueller has brought charges against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian groups for interfering with the 2016 U.S. elections, the Department of Justice announced Friday.

The charges allege that the Russians posed as U.S. people, created false U.S. personas and stole the identities of real U.S. people in order to interfere with U.S. elections, including the presidential contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will announce charges at a press conference later Friday.

“From in or around 2014 to the present, Defendants knowingly and intentionally conspired with each other (and with persons known and unknown to the Grand Jury) to defraud the United States by impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of the government through fraud and deceit for the purpose of interfering with the U.S. political and electoral processes, including the presidential election of 2016,” the indictment reads.