It's the Brian Larra Show on WNYC. Good morning everyone. On the death of Alexei Navalny,

Donald Trump seems to be playing it, kind of like he played the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville in 2017, you know, when he famously

said there were good people on both sides. As usual, Trump is not condemning Putin.

The Washington Post reminds us this morning that when

Navallny was first poisoned by Putin, that was in 2000, while Trump was president,

Trump was asked by Navallny to denounce the poisoning and he did not.

Asked by others, Trump deflected saying instead things like we should focus on China.

Now Trump is again saying nothing bad about Putin. Instead he's

comparing himself to Navalny, saying the Biden administration is out to imprison

him.

Never mind that Trump is facing criminal charges for actual alleged crimes brought by grand juries of his peers, most not even in federal court.

Navalny was poisoned, imprisoned, and now apparently murdered

for expressing his views.

And more than 400, this is just breaking,

400 new arrests are being reported in Russia over the last day of

people simply out at vigils for Navalny.

Donald Trump is not condemning those arrests.

His rival for the Republican presidential nomination,

Nicky Haley said this over the weekend on CNN

about Trump's silence regarding Putin.

The problem is anybody that can't... about Trump's silence regarding Putin.

The problem is anybody that can't call out a dictator,

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