Hillary Clinton, the previous secretary of state and Mr. Trump’s former rival on the marketing campaign path, mentioned in a podcast look Friday that if Mr. Trump can safe an finish to the warfare in Ukraine with out ceding territory to Russia, she would nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize herself.
Clinton made the feedback on the podcast “Raging Moderates” with Jessica Tarlov.
“Actually, if he may convey concerning the finish to this horrible warfare, the place Putin is the aggressor, invading a neighbor nation, making an attempt to alter the borders — if he may finish it with out placing Ukraine ready the place it needed to concede its territory to the aggressor, needed to, in a method, validate Putin’s imaginative and prescient of better Russia, however as an alternative may actually stand as much as Putin, one thing we’ve not seen, however possibly that is the chance,” Clinton mentioned.
She added that this should imply a ceasefire and Russia withdrawing over time from the territory it is seized. “If we may pull that off, if President Trump had been the architect of that, I would nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize, as a result of my purpose right here is to not permit capitulation to Putin, aided and abetted by the US.”
Clinton added: “I am dreaming that for no matter mixture of causes, together with the elusive Nobel Peace Prize, President Trump may very well stand as much as Putin on behalf of not simply Ukraine and its democracy and its very courageous individuals, however frankly, on behalf of our personal safety and pursuits.”
Mr. Trump, whose supporters chanted “lock her up” about Clinton throughout the 2016 presidential election, informed Fox Information’ Bret Baier it was “very good” of Clinton to say that, and, “I may need to start out liking her once more.”
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