I think the messaging is very clear: furthering Putin’s agenda of affecting the destruction of the US as a collaborative international force for “good”; hiding the shit these feckless traitors will all hang for when their incompetence catches up with them.
I think we’ve moved beyond this. It is now about the facsists and the non-fascists.
Any tolerance or acceptance of what the Trump administration is doing, infers complicity in the desecration of US democracy.