‘Obviously Putin has his number’: why Russia wants a Trump presidency again
by Martin Pengelly from US news | The Guardian on (#6HA2F)
Fiona Hill, a former White House Russia expert, argues in a podcast why Moscow is eager for the ex-president to return
Vladimir Putin has had Donald Trump's number for some time ... knows how to manipulate him" and still sees him as an asset", the former White House Russia expert Fiona Hill said, discussing the Russian leader and the Republican presidential frontrunner.
That's literally [Putin's] trump card," Hill told the One Decision Podcast, hosted by the reporter Jane Ferguson and Sir Richard Dearlove, a former head of MI6, when asked if she thought the Russian president, bogged down in war in Ukraine, was betting on Trump beating Joe Biden next year and returning to power.
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