Conservative rips Trump defenders' 'grotesque' comparison to Russian opposition leader

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : On Monday, Trump himself invoked the comparison on social media.
33% : Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in Phoenix in December 2022 (Gage Skidmore)After the news broke that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny had died in a Siberian prison, many Never Trump conservatives -- including MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and The Bulwark's Jonathan V. Last -- cited Donald Trump's praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin as a prime example of why Trump should never return to the White House.
26% : "READ MORE:Michael Cohen predicts Trump will be found 'guilty on all charges' in Manhattan trialConspiracy theorist Dinish D'Souza tweeted, "Navalny=Trump.
20% : Watch the Biden Administration speak out against Putin and his jailing of his leading political opponent while Democrats in four different jurisdictions try to turn President Trump into an American Navalny.
15% : "Criticizing Biden's alleged treatment of Trump can land you in a Fox News studio."
14% : But Trump's defenders on the far-right responded to Navalny's death with a very different argument, claiming that the four criminal indictments against Trump are comparable to Navalny's imprisonment in Siberia -- a comparison that conservative Jonah Goldberg slams as a "grotesque" in his February 19 column for the Los Angeles Times.
4% : "READ MORE: 'Person without dollars': Pelosi thinks Putin has 'something financial' on TrumpThe conservative columnist stresses that Trump "is not an innocent anti-corruption crusader brutalized and murdered for championing democracy and the rule of law" and that it is ridiculous to describe President Joe Biden as "the moral equivalent of Vladimir Putin.

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