Their favorite white nationalist dictator shows how it’s done:
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to 19 additional years in a prison colony for extremism-related charges.
Russian state media reported the sentence, which was announced by Judge Andrei Suvorov on Friday. The opposition leader was found guilty of creating and participating in an extremist community, financing extremist activities, organizing an extremist community, making public calls for extremist activity, and involving minors in dangerous activities, TASS reported. The former technical director of Navalny’s YouTube channel, Daniel Kholodny, was found guilty of similar charges and sentenced to eight years in a penal colony, though of a less severe variety than Navalny’s.
Navalny’s sentence was just one year shy of what state prosecutors were seeking for the ailing dissident, whose case has become a cause celebre for advocates for political prisoners worldwide. He was first sentenced to under three years when first returning to Russia from Germany in January 2021, then he was sentenced to an additional nine years after protests in support of him.
From the whining and wailing and rending of garments from the Republicans you’d think this is what is happening to Donald Trump. But he’s living comfortably in his gaudy beach club and flying around on his private 747 while Navalny is in jail, frail and starving and forced to share a cell with prisoners who are contagious with disease. They are literally killing him slowly. He says he knows he will die in prison and he is only 47 years old.
Trump should count his lucky stars that his future isn’t in the hands of his good pal Vlad.