Oleg Deripaska, once hailed as Russia’s richest man, has hit out at US officials after a property in Washington reportedly linked to the sanctioned businessman was searched by security agents in connection with a court order. In a fiery rant posted online on Wednesday, the aluminum magnate suggested the raid had been in connection with claims Moscow had interfered in the 2016 American presidential election to secure a win for Republican candidate Donald Trump.

“As I watch what is going on in the US, my astonishment only grows at how staggeringly dumb the American establishment can be,” Deripaska said, arguing that authorities are “hell-bent on exploiting this tall tale of how the Russians allegedly played a decisive role in the 2016 election.”

According to him, Trump only “had help from these dumbasses in Washington DC who drove the voters to the point of such despair that they were ready to vote for just about anybody else – even a cartoon character – instead of the Clinton clan that is knee-deep in fraud and bribery.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/537968-fbi-raid-over-trump-election/