Poor, Poor Donald Trump

All the suffering that has happened over the millennia was just a preview of his saga

B Kean
3 min readFeb 21, 2024

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Courtesy of the Hoover Church of Christ

Somehow, I missed it. After the death of Alexey Navalny, though, and thanks to Donald Trump’s accurate assessment, Navalny’s murder— Jesus’s crucifixion, the persecution of Jews, Blacks in America, etc. — is all just kind of white noise compared to what is going on with poor little Donald.

Alexey Navalny died a political martyr after returning home to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal rule. But that’s not stopping Donald Trump from coopting his heroic legacy to suggest false equivalence with his own legal troubles.

“It’s happening in our country too. We are turning into a Communist country in many ways. And if you look at it, I’m the leading candidate, I got indicted. … I got indicted four times. I have eight or nine trials … all because of the facts that I’m in politics,” Trump, the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination, said in the Fox News event. Later, when referring to a $355 million civil fraud judgment against him last week, he added that “it is a form of Navalny, it is a form of communism or fascism (Trump Co-opts Navalny’s Legacy).”

Trump really hit the nail on the head with this comparison. The only glaring weak spot here is that he failed to again…

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B Kean

The past holds the answers to today’s problems. “Be curious, not judgmental,” at least until you have all the facts. Think and stop watching cable news.