Putin "Trolls" Top Austrian Journalist : It’s Sad How Far Western Democracy Has Fallen

Vladimir Putin:

"You've just said Mr. Prigozhin is called 'Putin's chef.' He really does run a restaurant business. It's his economic platform. He has restaurants in St. Petersburg.
Now, let me ask you something. Do you really believe that a person who's in the restaurant business, even if this person has some hacking opportunities and owns a private firm engaged in this activity — I do not even know what he does — is able to sway elections in the United States or a European country? Could it be that the information and political standards in the countries of the consolidated West have been driven down to such a low level that a Russian restaurant keeper can sway voters in a European country or the United States?
Isn't that ridiculous?"