“The sudden death of Alexei Navalny has made me increasingly aware of what is happening in our country. It’s a slow and steady progression, with CROOKED, radical left politicians, prosecutors and judges leading us down a path to destruction. Open borders, rigged elections, and grossly unfair court decisions are DESTROYING AMERICA. WE ARE A NATION IN DECLINE, A NATION IN FAILURE! MAGA2024“
This is Donald Trump, who hasn’t said much about Alexei Navalny’s death in a Siberian prison last week. But on Monday, the former president and leading Republican candidate finally released a statement about the late Russian dissident and critic of Vladimir Putin.
Trump has hinted at a link between Navalny’s death and the numerous legal issues he himself is facing, from criminal cases to the blow to his businesses, culminating in a loss in civil litigation last week.
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“The sudden death of Alexei Navalny has made me increasingly aware of what is happening in our country,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, the social media platform linked to Trump’s investments. Trump wasn’t talking about cracking down on anti-government protests, but instead he was angry that he was facing legal problems from the start.
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Last Monday, Trump posted that he faced a “handpicked, dishonest judge” who issued a $355 million settlement against his companies, saying they engaged in a years-long scheme to defraud banks and others with financial statements that inflated his wealth.
Judge Arthur Engoron wrote Friday that Trump and his company “will likely continue their fraudulent ways” without the financial sanctions and other controls he imposed. Engoron said Trump and his co-defendants “did not take responsibility” and that the experts who testified on his behalf “simply denied reality.”
Trump’s anger over the ruling was the topic of the weekend. He wrote on Sunday that facing trial for non-political reasons was “a coordinated attack on freedom” as well as “an attack on the future of our nation.”
Over the weekend, Trump indirectly posted about Navalny and Putin. However, in this case, Trump cited an editorial by a conservative pollster, who compared the Republican to Navalny and Biden to Putin. It’s an unintentional suggestion that Putin behaved inappropriately, something Trump has long avoided doing.
–With additional reporting from the Associated Press