Trump compares his legal troubles to the persecution of Putin critic Navalny

Former U.S. President and current front runner for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump, said on Tuesday that Alexei Navalny was “a very brave man” who probably should not have returned to Russia, without assigning any blame for the Russian opposition leader’s unexpected death.

Trump — who has expressed admiration for Vladimir Putin during his White House tenure and afterward — continued to compare himself to Navalny, implying that they both had faced politically motivated prosecutions.