On Monday, former President Donald Trump made the comparison the sudden death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a prison colony to the legal threat he faces in the United States, raising a talking point in some right-wing circles connects two In his first comments on Navalny’s death.
“Alexey Navalny’s sudden death has made me more and more aware of what is happening in our country,” Trump wrote on his Truth social platform. “It is the slow, steady progression of Crooked, Radical Left Politicians, Prosecutors and Judges leading us down the path to destruction. Open Borders, Fraudulent Elections, and Grossly Unfair Court Decisions ARE NOT DESTROYING AMERICA. WE ARE A NATION OF PEACE, A FAILED NATION! MAGA2024.”
Nikki Haley, Trump’s former ambassador to the UN and the only main candidate of the PFLP to face him in the presidential elections, condemned Trump’s reaction to Navalny’s death. Haley repeatedly criticized Trump over the weekend Not to mention Navalny’s deathreported on Friday and for recent comments that are Trump once told his NATO allies that if they didn’t increase defense spending, he would “hell” Russia into “doing what they want.”
“Donald Trump could blame [Russian President] Vladimir Putin for being a murderous thug,” Haley he tweeted. “Trump could appreciate Navalny’s courage. Instead, he stole a page from the liberal playbook, bashing America and comparing our country to Russia.
News of Navalny’s death, announced by the Russian prison service, followed his survival several poisoning attemptsIncluding one in 2020 poisoned with a military nerve agent During his business trip to Russia. Navalny, who has been on a crusade to expose corruption in Putin’s government for years, blamed the Russian president for the poisoning attempt.
The Russian opposition leader, who spent his last years in prison, was 47 years old. His death was widely condemned by international leaders, including President Joe Biden, who said he was “both surprised and outraged.”
As president, Trump described Navalny’s poisoning as “tragic” and “horrible” and something that “shouldn’t have happened.”
In a press briefing on September 4, 2020, he said, “We don’t have any evidence yet, but I will look.”
Asked two weeks later who was responsible, Trump said, “We’ll talk about that another time.”
Trump’s post has resonated with his right-wing allies, who have linked the former president to the Russian dissident in recent days.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said, “Navalny’s death in prison is a brutal reminder that imprisoning your political opponents is inhumane and a violation of every principle of a free society.” Posted in X, formerly known as Twitter. “Watch as Democrats in four different jurisdictions seek to turn President Trump into America’s Navalny, as they oppose the Biden Administration’s arrest of Putin and his leading political rival.”
“Navalny=Trump”, placed right-wing activist Dinesh D’Souza. “The plan of the Biden regime and the Democrats is to ensure that their leading political opponent dies in prison. There is no real difference between the two cases.”
Last year, the US State Department he called The latest charges of “extremism” facing Navalny are “baseless,” while the U.N he said Their resulting 19-year sentence “raises growing concerns about prosecutions and the political instrumentalization of courts, and comes amid increasingly repressive crackdowns on freedom of expression and political opposition.”
Vaughn Hillyard contributed.