CNN —Alexey Navalny died a political martyr after returning home to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal rule.
But that’s not stopping Donald Trump from coopting his heroic legacy to suggest false equivalence with his own legal troubles.
He offered a tempered tribute to Navalny, before returning to his own false claims of political persecution.
There is no world in which Trump and Navalny can be compared.
“Instead, Trump said Navalny’s death made him realize how bad America is.
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