Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley noted her 2024 opponent, Donald Trump’s silence surrounding Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death.
The Russian government reported Friday that Navalny died in a penal colony near the Arctic Circle. Navalny, who has been on a mission to expose corruption at the Kremlin, was originally sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison in 2021. Nine years were added to his sentence in 2022, along with an additional 19 last year.
“Putin murdered his political opponent and Trump hasn’t said a word after he said he would encourage Putin to invade our allies. He has, however, posted 20+ times on social media about his legal drama and fake polls,” Haley wrote on X Friday.
Putin murdered his political opponent and Trump hasn’t said a word after he said he would encourage Putin to invade our allies. He has, however, posted 20+ times on social media about his legal drama and fake polls.
— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) February 16, 2024
Meanwhile, Trump received a judgment Friday ordering him and his associates to pay $364 million in his civil business fraud case in New York. The former president was active on Truth Social, sharing several video clips of New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought the lawsuit against him. Haley’s criticism did not encourage Trump to make a statement on Navalny’s death.
“Putin did this,” Haley wrote in reference to Navalny. “The same Putin who Donald Trump praises and defends. The same Trump who said: ‘In all fairness to Putin, you’re saying he killed people. I haven’t seen that.’”
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Throughout that several-week period, Navalny’s lawyers did not hear from their client, Navalny missed a virtual court date, and letters sent to him were not delivered.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s administration shrugged off Navalny’s missing case from the beginning, claiming it does not “monitor the fate” of any one prisoner in its institutions.