'Grotesque!' Morning Joe stomps on Trump for comparing himself to Navalny

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough condemned Donald Trump's "grotesque" comparison of himself to the late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny on Tuesday.

The Russian opposition leader died last week in an Arctic prison, where he'd been sentenced on extremism charges as Vladimir Putin's leading domestic critic, and the "Morning Joe" host was appalled that Trump broke days of silence to make the suspicious death about himself.

"There are few words," Scarborough said. "You have these freaks, weirdos, insurrectionists, radicals on the far, far right – they're not even the right now. They're in the Trump death cult for American democracy."

The former president and a number of his Republican allies positioned Trump as a political dissident targeted by President Joe Biden for legal persecution, and Scarborough was thoroughly disgusted.

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"To make those comparisons are so grotesque," he said. "To compare America to Russia is so grotesque. To compare Trump to Navalny, Trump who flies around in a 757, who lives in a golden skyscraper, who lives in Mar-a-Lago, when you have Navalny dead, poisoned in a penal colony. All of this is so grotesque. What is so shocking is, this isn't one freak legislator, right-wing freak legislator from Louisiana or Iowa. This is the next Republican nominee for president of the United States in 2024."

"Republicans are falling in line," Scarborough added. "They're saying, 'The hell with America, we will trash America, we'll say it's just like Russia.' Just like Trump's been doing since 2015, just to elect this con artist who wants to undermine America's rule of law and American democracy."

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