evidence: FACT CHECK: Did Vladimir Putin Blame Americans For Interfering With Their Own Democracy? A video shared on Instagram purports to show Russian President Vladimir Putin telling Americans they interfere with their own democracy. [...] "You blame me for interfering with your democracy. But I don’t have to, you are doing it yourselves," Putin appears to say in English via the Instagram video, liked over 700 times. "Polling stations are closing. You don’t know who to trust, you are divided. There are strings we can pull, but we don’t have to. You are pulling them for us," he appears to continue.