Former President Donald Trump once against compared himself to Alexei Navalny Tuesday night, claiming that his business fraud ruling in New York is the same sort of treatment that the Russian opposition leader faced.
“It’s a form of Navalny, it’s a form of communism or fascism,” Trump said during a town hall event moderated by Fox News’ Laura Ingraham.
The former president was ordered to pay $355 million in fines last week after New York Judge Arthur Engoron found him and his company, the Trump Organization, liable of fraud. Trump has said that he intends to appeal the ruling, although in order to do so, his defense team will have to post a nearly $400 million bond to the state of New York.
“The guy’s a nut job,” Trump added, referring to Engoron.
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