President Joe Biden did not mince words on Friday when he pointed the finger at Russian President Vladimir Putin for the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a remote prison located in the Arctic. Sounds like a pretty horrible place to spend your last days, right? What is hilarious is the fact Biden and other liberals are so angry about this they’re blowing steam out of their ears, calling the suppression of opposition a bad thing, when that is the exact same thing they are doing here on our own soil.
Look at all of the charges and indictments brought against former President Donald Trump by the Justice Department? It’s been hijacked by progressives and is being used as a weapon to try and remove him from the 2024 election. What about the folks being prosecuted for allegedly participating in the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021? Or the pro-life advocate who got arrested when the FBI raided his home? That case was immediately tossed out by the way.
I could provide even more examples, but we’ll just get on with it.
via The Daily Wire’s latest report:
Navalny, a frequent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was in prison after being convicted on charges of “extremism” and sentenced to 19 years in prison. Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service said that Navalny felt sick after going on a walk and soon after lost consciousness and died.
During a brief press conference from the White House, Biden said that Navalny “bravely stood up to the corruption, the violence, and all the bad things that Putin was doing.”
“In response, Putin had him poisoned. He had him arrested. He had him prosecuted for fabricated crimes. He sends him to prison. He was held in isolation. Even all that didn’t stop him from calling out Putin’s lies,” Biden went on to say. “Even in prison, he was a powerful voice for the truth, which is kind of amazing when you think about it. And he could have lived safely in exile after the assassination attempt on him in 2020, which nearly killed him I might add … instead, he returned to Russia.”
“Russian authorities are going to tell their own story. But make no mistake, make no mistake, Putin is responsible for Navalny’s death. Putin is responsible,” the president added. “What has happened to Navalny is yet more proof of Putin’s brutality. No one should be fooled — not in Russia, not at home, not anywhere in the world — Putin does not only target citizens of other countries … He also inflicts terrible crimes of his own people.”
Biden then took an opportunity to take Navalny’s death to launch a few attacks on Republicans, demanding the House pass his foreign aid legislation to send more cash to Ukraine. Because a war that has nothing to do with us needs our intervention. Look, no one is saying Putin is a good person. But we continually stick our noses where it doesn’t belong. We stretch ourselves too thin by pretending to police the globe.
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Average Americans are tired of it. This constant entanglement in world affairs was warned against by our Founding Fathers who clearly were smarter than we are. Maybe it’s time we finally listened to them?
Navalny had been sentenced to prison in 2021 after returning to Moscow from Germany, where he was undergoing treatment for poisoning from a nerve agent that was blamed on the Kremlin. The Kremlin has denied any responsibility for his poisoning, but United States intelligence officials have said they believe Russia was responsible.
“Navalny frequently faced criminal charges during his career in Russian politics, which he said were motivated because of his opposition to Putin. Navalny founded the Anti-Corruption Foundation, which was dissolved in Russia in 2021, to expose corruption by high-ranking Russian officials and challenge the United Russia Party’s control over the country’s political system,” the report concluded.