“On Putin’s side”: Trump is caught in the crossfire after Alexei Navalny's death. Republican US presidential candidate Nikki Haley starts criticizing her internal party rival.

Trump's campaign team simply referred to a post on its Truth Social online service that said the United States was "no longer respected" by Russia and Putin. “All he did at that moment was to strengthen Putin,” criticized Haley, who, like Trump, is running for the US Republican presidential nomination.