Washington — Hillary Clinton, the previous secretary of state and President Trump’s former rival on the presidential marketing campaign path, stated Friday that if Mr. Trump secures an finish to the struggle in Ukraine with out Kyiv 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, as Mr. Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska to debate a attainable finish to Russia’s struggle in Ukraine.
“Truthfully, if he might convey concerning the finish to this horrible struggle, the place Putin is the aggressor, invading a neighbor nation, making an attempt to alter the borders — if he might finish it with out placing Ukraine able the place it needed to concede its territory to the aggressor, needed to, in a manner, validate Putin’s imaginative and prescient of higher Russia, however as an alternative might actually stand as much as Putin, one thing we’ve not seen, however possibly that is the chance,” Clinton stated.
“To make it clear that there should be a ceasefire. There can be no alternate of territory. And that, over a time period, Putin ought to be really withdrawing from the territory he is seized with a view to display his good-faith efforts, allow us to say, to not threaten European safety,” she continued. “If we might pull that off, if President Trump have been the architect of that, I would nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize, as a result of my aim right here is to not enable capitulation to Putin, aided and abetted by the US. I feel that is a horrible, horrible precedent.”
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 folks, however frankly, on behalf of our personal safety and pursuits.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr and the Ukrainians desire a full withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine, together with the territories Russia has seized.
Mr. Trump, whose supporters chanted “lock her up” about Clinton throughout the 2016 presidential election, expressed appreciation for his formal rival’s remarks. The president informed Fox Information’ Bret Baier on Friday it was “very good” of Clinton to say that, and, “I could have to begin liking her once more.”
Clinton on Friday stated she hopes Mr. Trump remembers that he is on the very army base “that has to ship up fighter planes to observe and fend off Russian bombers that routinely harass our army property, do overflights, interact in provocative conduct within the skies above Alaska.”
“I hope he is reminded of that,” she continued. “He’s not assembly with a good friend. He’s assembly with an adversary, and an adversary who hopes to play him. And the very best factor that might come out of this, frankly, might be nothing, nothing agreed to, besides an actual strengthening of President Trump’s understanding that Putin just isn’t somebody you may make a cope with an count on it to final.”
