Please explain, as this is not obvious at all.

They literally aren’t. And Russia being a boogeyman that both sides claim the other is in cahoots with is exhausting. And the premise that communicating with someone means you endorse their actions. It’s all just lazy

It might be "technically probably not true," but no it's not hyperbole. If anything it's an understatement. Actually what the incoming administration did is publicly asked adversarial foreign intelligence services to hack and disrupt the election campaign of an American political opponent.

And then those intelligence services actually did just that pretty much the same day.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-asked-russia-to-...