As President Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the hopes of ending the war in Ukraine, his long-held dream of nabbing a Nobel Peace Prize has an unlikely supporter: former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
In a recent podcast appearance, Clinton said she would support Trump for the coveted prize if he were able to negotiate an end to the more than three-year war that sufficiently repudiates Putin and his claims to Ukrainian territory.
“If he could end it without putting Ukraine in a position where it had to concede its territory to the aggressor, had to, in a way, validate Putin’s vision of greater Russia, but instead could really stand up to Putin, to make it clear there must be a ceasefire,” she told “Raging Moderates” co-host Jessica Tarlov.
“If President Trump were the architect of that, I’d nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize,” the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee added.
Trump has increasingly campaigned to receive the prize — which was awarded to then-President Obama in 2009 — for his work in a variety of conflicts, including facilitating a ceasefire between India and Pakistan in May. He also reportedly called the prime minister of Norway last month to ask about his nomination, Norwegian press reported.
The president has already garnered nominations from Pakistan, Cambodia, Israel, administration officials and GOP lawmakers as he touts his role in talks to end various global conflicts.
The Friday summit at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, is the first time Trump and Putin have convened face-to-face since the first Trump administration. The president reassured European leaders earlier this week that he would not negotiate specific territorial swaps during the meeting.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who will not be at the summit, has pushed back against any talk of ceding land to Moscow.
Clinton was serving in the State Department when Putin returned to power in 2012 after a four-year gap.
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