Donald Trump finally got around to mentioning the Navalny assassination, and of course he made it all about himself.
The sudden death of Alexei Navalny has made me more and more aware of what is happening in our Country. It is a slow, steady progression, with CROOKED, Radical Left Politicians, Prosecutors, and Judges leading us down a path to destruction. Open Borders, Rigged Elections, and Grossly Unfair Courtroom Decisions are DESTROYING AMERICA. WE ARE A NATION IN DECLINE, A FAILING NATION! MAGA2024 [Reuters]
(It does look like Reuters captured the entire text, but I have no intention of getting on Truth Social to double-check.)
Nancy Pelosi, never one to mince words, especially when it comes to Trump, let him have it right between the eyes: Pelosi: Trump comments on Navalny’s death ‘beneath the dignity of a human being’ (The Hill)
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) went after former President Trump on Monday for his response to the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, calling Trump’s comments “’beneath the dignity of a human being.”
She did this in an interview tonight on “Inside with Jen Psaki,” which I watched part of (but then had to go to a GOTV postcard writing event), but in the part that I did see, the Speaker Emerita was plenty pissed.
“You wonder, what does Putin have on Donald Trump that he always has to be beholden to him, his buddy in vileness?” . . . “It is so horrible you think, ‘No, somebody must have made this up. Not even Donald Trump could go this far,’” she said. “This statement should disqualify him from running for anything, much less President of the United States.”
Side note: Nikki Haley, who did immediately blame Putin for Navalny’s death, responded to Trump’s despicable crud by taking a gratuitous swipe at “liberals” as a way of attacking Trump:
Nikki Haley, Mr. Trump’s rival in the Republican presidential primary and his former ambassador to the United Nations, attacked him over his response.
“Donald Trump could have condemned Vladimir Putin for being a murderous thug,” she wrote on Monday on the social media platform X. “Trump could have praised Navalny’s courage. Instead, he stole a page from liberals’ playbook, denouncing America and comparing our country to Russia.” [NYT]
Which doesn’t make her quite as despicable as Trump, but puts her in the running — the more so since the “liberals” she is smearing, starting wih President Biden, did immediately denounce Russia, not America, for Navalny’s death, singling out Putin by name. Let that be a warning to anyone who thinks Haley would be better than Trump.
(“Liberals” is in scare quotes because I’m highlighting Haley’s use of it to mean anyone to the left of Attila the Hun.)