Trump Refuses to Blame Putin for Navalny’s Death: ‘Can’t Say For Sure’

KURTZ: “You said that the sudden death of Alexei Navalny in a Siberian prison camp was horrible and that he was very brave, and there’s no question about that. You just said you’re going through a form of Navalny. But here’s the thing. The media, as you know, blame Putin. Joe Biden blames Putin. Much of the civilized world blames Putin. Do you believe Vladimir Putin has some responsibility for the death of Alexei Navalny?”
Trump: “I don’t know. But perhaps, I mean, possibly, I could say probably. I don’t know. He’s a young man, so statistically, he’d be alive for a long time. If you go by the insurance numbers, he’d be alive for another 40 years. So, something happened that was unusual.”
KURTZ: “Obviously, he survived a poisoning attempt in Berlin, barely lived. Went back, got jailed, and suddenly he keels over, they don’t release the body. I mean, how could anything like that happen without Putin and high-ranking Kremlin officials sanctioning it?”
Trump: “Well, I don’t know. You certainly can’t say for sure, but certainly that would look like something very bad happened. Right?”
KURTZ: “I think we can agree on that.”
Trump: “I think so.”
KURTZ: “You like to say that if you were president, Russia would not have invaded Ukraine.”
Trump: “Yeah.”