The hacking narrative began when polls started shifting towards Trump from Clinton's huge early polling leads. It was always their backup plan to attempt to delegitimization Trump in the event he pulled off a "long-shot". Same reason why for months all the TV news and nation polls were head to head Trump versus Clinton until the gap narrowed. Then for the first time ever in US presidential politics the polls all stated including the Green Party and Libertarian party to siphon some of the statistics away from Trump and skew the numbers in Hillary's favor. The problem for the media is they've lost their power to baffle the public with BS. It's the reason they're pushing this "fake news" narrative. The public no longer trusts them and the news sources they claimed are fake are the ones who were right! They are in fact the fake news and lied to the American public right up until the last hour when queen Hillary lost.