Republican Tudor Dixon recently compared the conviction of former President Donald Trump in his Manhattan criminal trial to Alexei Navalny, the critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who died earlier this year.
On Tuesday evening, Dixon, the host of the Tudor Dixon Podcast and former Republican nominee for governor in Michigan, appeared on Fox News‘ Hannity to discuss the guilty verdict reached in Trump’s criminal trial for falsifying business records in 2016.
“This is happening all across the country. What they’ve done to Trump, they’re doing in states across the country. You see it in Michigan, you see it in Georgia, this is something that is incredibly dangerous,” she said. “But let’s not forget, these are people on creating a crime, matching the president to the crime and then putting him in prison.”
Dixon went on to reference recent remarks by U.S. President Joe Biden calling Trump a “convicted felon.”
“And now you have the President of the United States going ‘gosh, look, he is now, he’s a convicted felon and now you have to vote for me.’ I mean, this is one step away from Alexei Navalny.”
Newsweek reached out to Dixon via email for further comment. Newsweek also reached out to Trump’s spokesperson for comment.
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Last week, a jury in New York City found Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment allegedly made to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Trump, who has long denounced the prosecution as a “witch hunt,” has said he is innocent of all charges in this case and other criminal and civil cases he is facing.
The former president has said that he plans to appeal the verdict while repeatedly criticizing Biden, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan.
In February, Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service announced that Navalany had died while in prison at the age of 47. Navalny, seen as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic, had been in jail since February 2021 under major fraud and contempt of court charges widely viewed as politically motivated.
Trump’s sentencing is scheduled for July 11 and he could possibly face jail time for the charges.
During her appearance on Fox News, Dixon said that the conviction of Trump is “incredibly dangerous” for the nation.
“If the American people do not see what’s going on, then we will have Republicans jailed across this country,” she said. “It is extraordinarily scary times in the United States of America.”
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