Fox News host Laura Ingraham stunned viewers during her Tuesday evening program by noting that former President Donald Trump could become America’s first true political prisoner if the Biden administration gets its way.

To kick off her monologue, she asked: “Is Donald Trump at risk of being America’s first real political prisoner?”

“I thought a lot about this over the weekend. Now, with the unconscionable financial judgment in that New York civil fraud case, the Fani Willis debacle in Georgia, the efforts to knock Trump off state ballots, and, of course, let’s not forget Jack Smith’s January 6th criminal prosecution, what else are Trump supporters supposed to think?” she said.

“Now, there are various ways that despots cling to power. Political opposition is eliminated through censorship of opposing views, intimidation of free thinkers through harassment, and also show trials, of course, and imprisonment of the opposition. That’s all part of it. And then there is always the threats to family members and financial ruin. Well, Donald Trump is facing all of that,” she continued.

Ingraham went on to say that “had Trump just quietly retired from politics, none of us would have heard about Letitia or Fani or Jack” before comparing his treatment to political persecution in China and Russia.

“Russia and its Biden-era ally China, well, they’re pros, aren’t they, at destroying dissent before it gets too powerful,” said Ingraham.

“They’re brutally vicious and efficient. China subjugates and tortures Uyghur Muslims; Russia crushes the pro-freedom protesters, imprisons Navalny, and then announces his sudden death. Now, anyone who challenges the ruling authority now knows the same fate can happen to them. And by the same token, loyalists who prove themselves, you know, to be real followers of the movement, well, they get special privileges and accolades, and that’s exactly what the leaders of the Get Trump crew are hoping,” she continued.

“They call him pro-Putin as they scramble to put him in jail, bankrupt him, and even come after his family,” Ingraham noted before concluding: “This is not what America is supposed to be. This is Soviet-style political persecution.”

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