President Trump got teased Friday with a Nobel Peace Prize nomination from the most unlikely source — one of his most bitter rivals, Hillary Clinton.
Trump’s failed Democratic opponent told the “Raging Moderates” podcast that she would willingly nominate him for the illustrious prize if he could bring an end to the war in Ukraine without allowing President Vladimir Putin to take territory from its neighbor.
“Honestly, if he could bring about the end to this terrible war, if he could end it without putting Ukraine in a position where it had to concede its territory to the aggressor, could really stand up to Putin — something we haven’t seen, but maybe this is the opportunity — if President Trump were the architect of that, I’d nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize,” Clinton told podcast interviewer Jessica Tarlov in an interview released Friday.
“Because my goal here is to not allow capitulation to Putin,” she added.
The unexpected offer emerged as Trump was already en route to Alaska for the landmark talks with his Russian counterpart, where he hopes to bring about an end to the three-year conflict in Ukraine.
Trump has said he is confident the Russian president wants to make a deal to end the war, putting the chance of failure at just 25%.
Clinton’s suggested offer is all particularly shocking giving the years of scathing attacks she has made against the rival who unexpectedly trounced her in the 2016 presidential election.
While campaigning for that election, she famously called his supporters a “basket of deplorables” — and said he was “not just unprepared – he’s temperamentally unfit” to be president.
Her attacks then included his praise of counterpart Putin, before the Russian leader invaded Ukraine.
“He praises dictators like Vladimir Putin and picks fights with our friends,” she said on one occasion. She also claimed Trump was too “thin-skinned” to have access to nuclear codes.
Her attacks have continued, and in February this year she called his administration “dumb.”
“Instead of a strong America using all our strengths to lead the world and confront our adversaries, Mr. Trump’s America will be increasingly blind and blundering, feeble and friendless,” the former New York Senator wrote in an op-ed for the New York Times.
Last October, she said he was “more unhinged, [and] more unstable” now than he was when she lost the 2016 presidential election.
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