People often claim that Trump and Putin are big buddies. Some also think that Putin controls Trump from the shadows.
In reality that is a far-fetched idea. Putin had a plan for Trump's original 2016 election, but it was not to make him win. Instead, Putin wanted to make something like Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Under this scenario, Hillary would have declared winner, but Trump refused to concede just like Yushenko did in Ukraine and called his supporters that it is he who really won and called them to protest official results.
To achieve that, Putin was willing to give backing to Trump in view that he will do what Yushenko did in 2004.
Putin wanted to do that in order to make democracy in US look no better than in post-Soviet states. That would have weakened opposition against Putin and Yanukovych's authoritarian tendencies in Russia and Ukraine.
As to why Putin needed this far-fetched plan, that is because he fears "orange style" revolution in Russia that will overthrow him just like it did to Yanukovych and Shevardnadze in Ukraine and Georgia. So, he wants to shore up his position by discrediting democracy in the west.
Putin authoritarian system has significant opponents, and he needs something to disillusion them in the whole democracy idea so they would at least give up on opposing Putinism. Screwing up elections in home of democracy in the US seems like the plan.
Americans however managed to foil his plan by actually electing Trump president. When Trump lost in 2020, there still were Capitol Hill riots, but that did not have the same effect as if it were to happen in 2016.
Putin and Dmitriy Kiselev so wanted to say that when they prevent Navalnyi from running for president is no different from the US establishment preventing Trump from winning. Instead, they got just the opposite outcome.
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