I don't think the election was rigged -- that was Trump's nonsense and would be impossible to do. It nevertheless does appear to have been stolen.
All the polls -- unanimously among those with a scientific basis -- two weeks before the election had Clinton winning, then out comes the FBI, illegally, with "revelations" it has to investigate (although it was forced fairly quickly to back down -- the revelation was timed too close and the back down looked political). Therefore it changed maybe two percent of the vote -- some pretty much undecided types.
One has to wonder what went on in the FBI. It is not likely Trump's campaign was involved, but that there were a lot of anti-Clinton folk there who might easily have pulled such a stunt, knowing what might happen, makes the scenario probable.
At any rate Trump will not be seen as legitimate by most of the world, and probably after a little while by most Americans. He may have the office but he has no mandate (to have that he would need a popular vote majority anyway).
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