Fiona Hill Says Putin Has Trump’s Number

Former White House Russia expert Fiona Hill said that Vladimir Putin has had Donald Trump’s “number for some time… knows how to manipulate him” and still sees him “as an asset,” The Guardian reports.

Said Hill: “That’s literally his trump card.”

She added: “The anticipation that Trump’s going to come back is something for Putin of a boon… he can play with that. He can use it as kind of a warning… scare the Ukrainians, the Europeans, the rest of the world. Putin is pretty confident, given his experiences with Trump in the past, that Trump will be quick to try to resolve the war in Ukraine in his favor.”