Trump avoids condemning Russia for Navalny's death - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Trump has long express fondness and admiration for Putin and went so far as to side with the Russian dictator over Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election in a stunning rebuke of the US intelligence community.
44% : Trump posted on Truth Social.
37% : "In sharp contrast, Trump, who has a long history of praising Putin, went days without publicly mentioning Navalny and spoke for about an hour and a half at a campaign rally in Michigan over the weekend without weighing in on he opposition leader's death.
34% : Trump, who faces 91 criminal charges and claims without evidence he is being politically targeted because he is running for president, posted on his social media website on Monday, "The sudden death of Alexei Navalny has made me more and more aware of what is happening in our Country.
31% : The first time Trump mentioned Navalny's name in the wake of his death was when he shared a piece by the tippinsights editorial board on Sunday with the headline "Biden:Trump::Putin:Navalny," that baselessly claimed there are "some parallels between how the Biden administration is targeting the former president of the United States and how President Putin went after his arch-nemesis.
31% : "Trump needs to answer to that.
24% : "When Trump was in the White House, he declined to join other world leaders in condemning Russia after Navalny was poisoned with a Soviet-era chemical nerve agent in 2020.
19% : Trump last year also compared himself to Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison and was the first president of post-apartheid South Africa, as he railed against the numerous criminal charges against him and argued he was a victim of political persecution.
19% : She echoed those comments Sunday during a Fox News town hall, saying, "Donald Trump needs to answer whether he thinks Putin is responsible for Navalny's death.
13% : "Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Trump's last remaining major rival in the GOP primary, has repeatedly called out Trump for avoiding addressing Navalny's death.
12% : When asked in the hours after news of Navalny's death broke if Trump had a response, his campaign pointed CNN to a post by Trump on Truth Social that bashed Biden and claimed, "America is no longer respected," but did not mention Navalny or Putin.

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