Pelosi: Trump comments on Navalny’s death ‘beneath the dignity of a human being’

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Monday condemned former President Donald Trump’s response to the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, calling Trump’s comments “contrary to human dignity.” .

Navalny died in a Russian penal colony, the country’s government announced on Friday, leading to widespread accusations that it was a possible political assassination. President Trump addressed the deaths for the first time on Monday after being accused by Democrats of ignoring the issue.

Trump compared Navalny’s death to his own legal situation and did not place the blame on Russian President Vladimir Putin, as Biden and other U.S. allies did.

“What does President Putin think he has to keep an eye on his dirty sidekick Donald Trump?” Pelosi said Monday in an interview on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki.” He said this.

She said Trump’s comments “disregarded human dignity.”

“It’s so bad that you might think, ‘Oh no, someone must have made it up.’ Even Donald Trump couldn’t have done this,” she said. “This statement disqualifies him from running for office, much less President of the United States.”

President Biden commented on Navalny’s death for the first time after Friday’s report, quickly pointing it out to President Putin and using the opportunity to call for military aid to Ukraine.

“Make no mistake about it: President Putin is responsible for Mr. Navalny’s death. President Putin is responsible,” Biden said. “What happened to Mr. Navalny is further proof of Mr. Putin’s brutality. No one should be fooled.”

“We must provide funding so that Ukraine can continue to protect itself from President Putin’s heinous onslaught and war crimes,” he added, adding that the possibility of further sanctions against Russia “will not be considered”. There is,” he added.

Ukraine aid is stalled in the House after a bipartisan coalition of senators passed a foreign spending bill earlier this month. House Republican leaders said their group has no chance of passing Ukraine aid without action on the southern border after the House rejected a bipartisan border security bill.

“History is watching this House,” Biden said Friday. “Our failure to support Ukraine at this critical moment will never be forgotten.”

Pelosi also criticized House Republican leadership for delaying aid to Ukraine, calling it “shameful” that the U.S. has yet to fund additional aid against the Russian invasion.

“We do this at home,” she said. “It’s a shame that we haven’t done it yet. People will die every day if we don’t supply weapons with the range, speed and strength needed to defeat the Russians.”

“And the people there know that if something happens in Ukraine, we have to make sure it doesn’t happen in terms of Russia winning, but other countries are next,” he added.