Former President Donald Trump had waited days before making a public comment about the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. This gave GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley the chance to jump, which she did on Fox & Friends on Monday.
It has been noted that the Fox News host Steve Doocy asked Haley if her position on Russian President Vladimir Putin was the same as Trump’s, and her answer was direct:
“Not at all. I mean, it’s amazing to me how weak in the knees he is when it comes to Putin, because you look at the fact, he is yet to say anything about Navalny’s death, which, Putin murdered him. It’s what he does to his political opponents. He’s yet to say anything about seizing Russian assets and allowing that money to go to Ukraine. Why would you not want to have those assets seized? It’s sitting in Congress, he should be calling for that.
He doesn’t talk about anything. All he does is go on late-night rants, talking about his court cases. And Steve, that’s the problem. We have Russia sitting there doing things, they are now surrounding the Baltics. Which, if they go and invade the Baltics, those are NATO countries. That puts America at war. We have to prevent war. We’ve got China doing these cyber attacks. We’re seeing all of these things happen, and Trump’s doing late-night rants about his court cases? He’s going to be in court for the rest of the year. We can’t be distracted.”
It is to be also noted that evidence mounts that Navalny’s death was at the direction of Russian President Putin.
