Comparing Trump to Navalny makes such perfect sense, it's obvious why Newt has been considered the right-wing's intellectual heavyweight for 30 years now.
Let's dig in.
1) Trump is a corrupt national leader ousted in a free and fair election, despite desperately clinging to power and attempting to destroy democratic institutions.
Navalny wants Russia, via elections, to oust its corrupt national leader who clings to power and destroys democracy.
2) Trump is an authoritarian who has abused power and bullied and persecuted his political foes, often endorsing violence against them.
Navalny has been a victim of power abuses, has been bullied and persecuted and had violence directed at him by an authoritarian.
3) Navalny has spent years outing grift, embezzlement and corruption, recently exposing ostentatious luxury and gaudy excesses of Putin and his cronies.
Trump shits into golden toilets and had a Diet Coke button on the Resolute Desk.
4) Navalny is leading a campaign to expose financial crimes of Putin's cronies and have them jailed for corruption. He is striving to show that Putin's entire apparatus is a thieving cabal of crooks.
Trump is a crook who has pardoned his corrupt and thieving political cronies.
5) Navalny is the only real political enemy Putin has. Putin's hatred for him is intense and literally murderous. The feeling is quite mutual.
Putin is the only politician Trump has staunchly refused to criticize throughout his career and has always made excuses for.
So, yes, @newtgingrich, Democrats should really be careful. Trump's resemblance with Navalny is so striking and hard to miss, he is literally one impeachment vote away from being utterly indistinguishable from the Russian rebel.

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You may need to sit down for this.
It's subtitled
Among the highlights:
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- A hookah room with a stage for pole dancing
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"What are the charges against him?"
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