My main point is that anti-Trump partisans are willfully combining two distinct and unrelated sets of e-mails to serve their political ends.
Horseshit. That's exactly what you are doing with this idiotic distinction about which emails were hacked and when, as if it makes the first fucking bit of difference. Although, you have come around to admitting that trump's requesting russian assistance, probably prompted russian assistance (although, oddly, you claim that this somehow isn't support for this practice by trump), so props for that I guess.
The point was that after trump's remarks, russians hacked sites for the first time. The fact that they had previously hacked other sites, changes nothing.
What you're trying to do, and it's rather obvious, is to move the ball away from any appearance of complicity by trump. The sane can no longer deny that the russian state tried to interfere with our election. The best you've got now is to try and distance trump from it. And that's kinda hard when he's on tape at a fucking campaign rally begging for them to release dirt on his opponent.
Your theory is all over the place. Somehow Trump was mentioning a previous hack, so this next hack isn't on him, despite you admitting that his calling for it likely caused it to happen, so he's not responsible? I have no idea what point you think you're making here. It seems like the only thing you can stick to is that the article didn't specify that this was the first time russia hacked
these particular servers. Which, like countless posters have pointed out to you, makes no fucking difference. It's a useless distinction. No one has thought that this was the first time russians hacked American servers. So there is no need for us or the article to specify that this was the first time the russians hacked this particular site/server. You're throwing a fit that no one is making this distinction, and we are all trying to rationally explain to you how it doesn't mean shit.
Bottom line, the president called for russian interference and got it. That should concern any honest American.