Former President Donald Trump made comparisons Monday between the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his ongoing legal problems, saying America is a “nation in decline.”
“The sudden death of Alexei Navalny has made me more and more aware of what is happening in our Country,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social. “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!”
Navalny was detained in January 2021 after he returned to Moscow from Germany where he received treatment for being poisoned, which he blamed on the Kremlin. He led multiple anti-Kremlin protests for a decade.
He was in prison multiple times, for reasons he called political. He was serving a 19-year sentence when he lost consciousness after a walk and couldn’t be resuscitated, the official Russian RT news network said Friday. RT said he had a blood clot at the time of his death.
President Biden and other world leaders say Russian President Vladimir Putin is responsible.
Mr. Trump faces 91 indictments across four criminal investigations. Two of them are centered around his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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On Friday, he was barred from doing business in New York for three years and ordered to pay roughly $355 million in damages in the New York civil fraud trial brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat.
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.
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