"It's been 3+ years since Jan 6 and Americans have a right to hear the grand jury evidence against Trump in open court.

Putin may be immune from Russian law"and thus able to freely kill dissidents"but it should be obvious to the Supreme Court that a U.S. President isn't,"

Cheney wrote on X, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Friday's death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in an Arctic penal colony."

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"Cheney warned that "[Trump] has basically made clear that under a Trump administration, the United States is unlikely to keep its NATO commitments. We have to take Donald Trump very seriously.

We have to take seriously the extent to which you've now got a Putin wing in the Republican Party. I believe the issue this election cycle is making sure the Putin wing of the Republican Party does not take over the West Wing of the White House."

"If Trump is elected, there'll be celebrations in the Kremlin," Bolton said in an MSNBC "Inside with Jen Psaki" interview Sunday.

"There's no doubt about it because Putin thinks that he is an easy mark."

"Well, heaven forbid [Trump] say anything critical of Vladimir Putin," Bolton said. "Look, accidents don't happen in those kinds of Russian prison camps."

Trump made his first comments on Navalny's death Monday, after Bolton's interview, comparing the death to his own legal situation. He did not call out Putin, as other leaders have.

Trump similarly did not criticize Putin for the 2020 attempted assassination of Navalny by poisoning, while many foreign leaders did blame Putin.

"It's obviously part of the pattern. He simply doesn't want to criticize his friend Putin, because in Trump's mind, if he's got a good relationship with Putin, the U.S. has a good relationship with Russia," Bolton continued.

"This is the kind of thing that tells Putin that Trump simply doesn't know what he's doing."

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At first I think what a weird world we have where Cheney and Bolton and Bernie and Obama are on the same side of an issue.

Then I remember that they are merely all being on the rational side of the issue, and Trumpers are just being wagged like the Big Dog's tail.