Trump supporting friends, please take a step back

B. Jay Cooper
2 min readFeb 18, 2024

To my friends who support Donald Trump, please take a step back and think about just two things.

Vladimir Putin opponent Alexei Navalny was killed last week because Putin wanted him dead. Ninety years in a Russian prison wasn’t enough of a sentence for Putin. He needed him to stop breathing.

As of this moment, Sunday around lunchtime, Donald Trump has said nothing about Navalny or Putin. Trump did find time last week to let it be known that if any of our NATO allies “don’t pay up” he would tell Putin to “do whatever the…

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B. Jay Cooper

Former deputy White House press secretary (Reagan and Bush 41) and former head of communications at Republican Natl Committee. My blog: bjaycooper.com.