Donald Trump again compares his criminal indictments to imprisonment and death of Putin’s top rival
Associated PressMAR 2024
Trump Again Compares Legal Troubles to Navalny Death
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The Spin
Pro-Trump narrative
Anti-Trump forces in the US have been weaponizing the justice system against the former president ever since he won the 2016 election. And their lawfare has gone beyond Trump to deliver harsh sentences for nonviolent acts to his allies and supporters. If Biden has his way, Trump will be imprisoned until he dies just like Navalny.
Anti-Trump narrative
Trump's audacity in comparing his plight to that of Navalny — who returned to Russia knowing the odds were he would wind up a martyr — is horrifying. Unlike Navalny, Trump has been granted all the constitutional privileges and safeguards of the justice system. If anything, Trump and his dictatorial tendencies compare favorably to Putin's authoritarianism.