I ask you this, how do you believe Russia tampered with the U.S election. Explain what methods did they use. Do you believe they hacked machines, bribed people, etc.
When Lesin was found dead in the Hotel Dupont in DC, his company, RT, aka Russia Today, transferred to the Kremlin. RT was initially a moderate investigative media source that was linked on Google news aggregator and Facebook's news aggregator. This is a key point, because seizing RT provided the Kremlin with an established news source. It was the easiest for them to seize (obviously they couldnt do this with an american news source, because it would be too obvious).
Michael Flynn Sr then travelled to Russia and received money from semi-state entities, including Kaspersky. Kaspersky is the antivirus company, alleged to conduct black hat activity for the Russian government at times.
Flynn returns to the US, a little bit richer, with a verifiable story to support his increase in capital (thereby voiding any allegations of FCPA violations). Flynn sets up shop to manage sock puppet army in US.
RT begins to post dubious fake news articles. Sock puppets promote the news articles on social media. Whether or not people read it, they see the headlines. Cheese Pizza conspiracy theories absorbed by global audience. Flynn's son takes credit for shooting incident that results from his own fake news promotion.
Trump wins election, appoints Flynn as NSA director.