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You're mixing up two different things here. The Wikileaks were not fake. But there was also a Russian campaign to spread fake news and troll the internet with anti-Hillary propaganda. And it was successful. This is not to entirely pass blame from the Clinton campaign, but these things did happen.
I'm confusing nothing. I previously stated explicitly that I don't think the truly "fake" stuff affected the vote because the folks who would believe that stuff were very likely Trump voters anyway. It was on the margins/conspiracy type stuff. At least that's my opinion based on what I was reading on conservative websites.
I do think there's a better argument that the DNC leaks affected how people voted because those got much more substantial airplay/media coverage, but I also said that stuff was true.