Nikki Haley said Saturday that former President Donald Trump is being called upon to respond following the death of Russia’s “hero” opposition leader Alexei A. Navalny.
She said the outspoken Mr. Navalny died at the hands of President Vladimir V. Putin and that her former boss, Mr. Trump, needed to “answer it.” new york times report.
In a call with reporters outside a rally in a park in Irmo, South Carolina, Haley praised Navalny, who accused President Putin of corruption and election fraud.
She said the Kremlin’s harsh critic had fled his native country and only returned “to fight the good fight.”
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is introduced at a campaign rally in Irmo. South Carolina Republicans will vote in the presidential primary on February 25th. (Sean Rayford/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
“Then he was arrested, and now President Putin did to him what he did to all of his opponents: he killed them,” she said of Trump, his rival in the Republican primary. said before criticizing.
“And Trump needs to answer that. Does he think Putin killed him? Does he think Putin was right to kill him? And he thinks Navalny Do you think he’s a hero?”
Political prisoner Navalny died Friday while serving a 19-year prison sentence in an Arctic penal colony, Breitbart News reported.
Putin critic and Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny dies in Arctic penal colony, Russia announces https://t.co/OTrJFtN5rI
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) February 16, 2024
Navalny, 47, has been branded a “terrorist and extremist” by the Russian government and has been convicted of several crimes, which he says are empty and politically motivated.
President Trump has yet to publicly comment on Navalny’s death.
