Sure, but if documents supposedly belonging to French political actors have Russian names in the metadata, it means they were tampered with. It doesn't matter if the tampering was done by Russia or by the USA; either way, those documents are not authentic, which means the whole "look what we found when we hacked his email" story is a fraud.

The leaked data was released too late to have an imapct on the election. Either who released it was really desperate or they seek to blame Russia.

It still seems that the leak was amplified by alt-right bot networks https://medium.com/dfrlab/hashtag-campaign-macronleaks-4a3fb...