Lara Trump Confronted By Reporter Over Trump Comparing Himself to Navalny: ‘How Are They Similar?

Former First Daughter-in-Law and senior campaign official Lara Trump was confronted over former President Donald Trump comparing himself to deceased political prisoner Alexei Navalny — and she doubled down.

Mrs. Trump is running to be co-chair of the Republican National Committee with the endorsement of her father-in-law, but wore her Trump campaign hat for an event with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) in North Charleston ahead of Saturday’s pivotal South Carolina GOP primary.

After delivering some remarks, Lara took questions and posed for pictures. One reporter asked about Trump’s comment at a Fox News town hall this week, where he called the bombshell fraud judgment against him “a form of Navalny.”

Lara replied she didn’t know exactly what he meant, then proceeded to make the comparison herself and repeated a slew of false claims.

But when asked if Putin is responsible for Navalny’s death, she sidestepped:

REPORTER: We’ve seen Trump like his legal woes and indictments to the death of Navalny in Russia. In what ways are the two similar?

LARA TRUMP: Well, I think you would have to ask him exactly what he meant, but I think we’re talking about targeting a political foe.

And that’s what you’ve seen happen with Joe Biden weaponizing his Department of Justice. There’s no doubt that if my father in law was not running for president of the United States right now, you wouldn’t see any of these indictments against him.

They wouldn’t be trying to tear his business apart, to ruin and destroy his family, his legacy and everything that he’s worked his entire life for. These things are not just, they are not real. They are very clearly designed to be election interference. And that’s exactly what it is.

Those are things you see happen in a communist country. Those are things you see happen in Russia to political opponents.

So I assume he meant that in very much the same way he’s been targeted as well.

REPORTER: And do you believe that Putin is responsible for the death of Navalny?

LARA TRUMP: I don’t know enough to comment on that.

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