Trump doubled down on his nonsense likening himself to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was likely killed by Putin this week in a Russian penal colony north of the Arctic Circle.
Aside from the fact that Trump has to make absolutely anything and everything all about him, he's also playing a little game where he pretends that he's the persecuted one being unjustly prosecuted, rather than the wannabe Putin who's more than ready to destroy what's left of our democracy in America and to use our justice system to seek revenge on his political enemies if (God forbid) he manages to get back into power.
Trump did a pre-recorded "town hall" with Fox's Laura Ingraham this Tuesday in Greenville, South Carolina, and was asked by Ingraham about Navalny's death, and after once again babbling about how this is all just one big political witch hunt, Trump then conflated what happened to Navalny to his civil fraud case:
During a Fox News town hall with Trump, host Laura Ingraham noted:
