"Patrick Jane" is long on "alternate rhetoric" but short on logic!
When all is said and done, for the President to order that precautionary plans be made, to prevent Russia or any other foreign power from influencing the 2018 Interims, is something Democrats, Republicans and the American public would support!
Such an initiative would also make political sense - even if "The Donald," in his infinite wisdom, trusts the Russians, he could at least point to these precautions as a means to deflect criticism that he colluded with the Russians!
This President is taking a huge, and totally unnecessary risk - by taking the word of Vladimir Putin over that of America's 17 intelligence agencies, he will face certain impeachment if he's wrong, and go down in US history as the 21stC equivalent of "Benedict Arnold!"
I think you have a distorted view of reality, friend. You make too many assumptions that can't be verified. You're more or less a gossipy kind of malcontent.