Donald Trump has compared his legal troubles to the persecution of Alexei Navalny, who died in a remote Arctic prison last week. Speaking to Fox News, the former US president called the Russian dissident’s imprisonment and death a “very sad situation”, suggesting he probably should not have returned to Russia. Trump did not assign any blame for Navalny’s death, however. US President Joe Biden and other Western leaders have pointed to Vladimir Putin. In the hour-long interview, Trump claimed the recent $355 fine handed to him in a New York fraud trial was a “form of Navalny”. “It is a form of c…