Former American President Donald Trump is once again causing a stir with his worldview. Because of his legal troubles, he seriously compared himself to Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian penal colony.
During an appearance in the state of South Carolina, organized by the right-wing television channel Fox News, Trump was delighted on Tuesday (local time) that the fine of 355 million dollars (329 million euros) imposed on him by a court in New York for financial fraud “a form of Navalny.”
Like Navalny, the right-wing populist described himself as a victim of a “form of communism or fascism”. His ‘fear’ is that the US will ‘become a communist country in many ways’:
Navalny died on Friday in a Russian penal colony in the Arctic. He was one of the most prominent critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In 2020, Navalny narrowly survived a nerve agent poisoning, for which he blamed the Kremlin.
Trump called Putin a ‘genius’
Trump found himself in the crossfire of criticism because, unlike many Western politicians and governments, he avoided attributing responsibility for Navalny’s death to Putin. In the past, Trump has repeatedly expressed his admiration for Putin and even called him a “genius.”
Also on Tuesday, when moderator Laura Ingraham asked him about the Navalny case, Trump did not mention the Russian president, but only vaguely mentioned a “bad situation.” The Republican presidential candidate described Navalny as a “very brave man” for returning to Russia after receiving treatment in Germany following the poison gas attack.
“He could have stayed away. And honestly, he probably would have fared a lot better if he had stayed away and spoken outside the country,” Trump said.
The Trump scam
He criticized the fact that similar things to the Navalny case were also happening in the US – and mentioned the charges against him. Trump was sentenced to a $350 million fine in a civil trial in New York on Friday, alleging that he and his sons Donald Junior and Eric had artificially inflated the assets of the family real estate empire by billions of dollars over the years in order to obtain favorable terms. from banks and insurance companies. However, these accusations do not bring to mind Navalny, but rather the Kremlin and oligarch network that the opposition activist used to denounce.
Four criminal charges were filed against Trump last year. This is partly due to his attempts to retroactively reverse his election defeat against current President Joe Biden in 2020 and due to his role in the storming of fanatical Trump supporters to the congressional seat in Washington in January 2021.
Trump wants to challenge Biden in the presidential elections in November and, based on the conduct of the primaries so far, has the best chance of being renominated as a candidate by the Republicans. There will be another Republican primary in South Carolina next weekend.
Source: Krone
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