Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro spoke on “The Ben Shapiro Show” on Friday regarding the death of the leading critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Alexei Navalny, 47, who was reported dead in prison.
Navalny had been sentenced on a bunch of trumped-up charges to a penal colony, Shapiro noted. Navalny had flown to Germany to seek treatment after falling ill on a flight inside Russia. Doctors concluded that he had been poisoned with a nerve agent called Novichok. When Navalny returned to Russia in 2021, he was immediately arrested by Vladimir Putin’s team, sentenced, and moved to a remote Arctic prison but no one knew where he was.
“For literally weeks they shuttled him around so that nobody could find out where he was,” Shapiro noted. “And then finally he released a message saying that he was in a place that was extremely cold, far in the north, where all he…
