Former President Trump continued to question the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Sunday, after being criticized for not explicitly blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin for what many Western leaders believe was an assassination.
Navalny died in a Russian prison last month, with little being known about his death until days later. President Biden and other Western leaders have said Putin is responsible, though Trump has so far avoided saying the same.
There’s an old saying.
“Never say ‘yes,’ when you can just wink, and never wink when you can just nod your head.”
For example, back in the 1980s when Trump first went to Moscow, they didn’t sit him in a room and officially swaer him into the KGB. They’d flatter him, push him subtly, and then let him do his thing.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842/