Laura Ingraham Claims Trump Is ‘At Risk of Being America’s First Real Political Prisoner’

Fox News host Laura Ingraham questioned on Monday whether former President Donald Trump is “at risk” of becoming a “political prisoner.”

At the beginning of The Ingraham Angle, Ingraham asked, “Is Donald Trump at risk of being America’s first real political prisoner?”

She continued:

I thought a lot about this over the weekend. Now, with the unconscionable financial judgment in that New York civil fraud case, the Fani Willis debacle in Georgia, the efforts to knock Trump off state ballots and, of course, let’s not forget Jack Smith’s January 6th criminal prosecution, what else are Trump supporters supposed to think?

Now, there are various ways that despots cling to power. Political opposition is eliminated through censorship of opposing views, intimidation of free thinkers through harassment, and also show trials, of course, and imprisonment of the opposition. That’s all part of it. And then there is always the threats to family members and financial ruin. Well, Donald Trump is facing all of that.

Ingraham went on to argue that “had Trump just quietly retired from politics, none of us would have heard about Letitia or Fani or Jack,” before comparing Trump’s treatment to political persecution in China and Russia.

“Russia and its Biden-era ally China, well they’re pros, aren’t they, at destroying dissent before it gets too powerful,” said Ingraham, adding:

They’re brutally vicious and efficient. China subjugates and tortures Uyghur Muslims; Russia crushes the pro-freedom protesters, imprisons Navalny, and then announces his sudden death. Now anyone who challenges the ruling authority now knows the same fate can happen to them. And by the same token, loyalists who prove themselves, you know, to be real followers of the movement, well they get special privileges and accolades, and that’s exactly what the leaders of the Get Trump crew are hoping.

The Fox News host protested, “They call him pro-Putin as they scramble to put him in jail, bankrupt him, and even come after his family.”

She then concluded, “This is not what America is supposed to be. This is Soviet-style political persecution.”

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