Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said on Friday that she will personally nominate President Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize if he secures peace between Russia and Ukraine.
Trump will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday to discuss a deal to end his war on Ukraine that has been waged since February 2022. Clinton said on the “Raging Moderates” podcast if Trump is able to secure a deal without Putin taking Ukrainian territory, then she will personally nominate Trump for the highest honor.
“I understand that [Trump] would very much like to win the Nobel Peace Prize,” Clinton told host Jessica Tarlov. “And honestly, if he could bring about the end to this terrible war where Putin is the aggressor invading a neighbor country [and] trying to change the borders, if he could end it without putting Ukraine in a position where it had to concede its territory to the aggressor [or] had to, in a way, validate Putin’s vision of greater Russia, but instead could really stand up to Putin…which is something we haven’t seen, but maybe this is the opportunity — to make it clear that there must be a ceasefire, there will be no exchange of territory, and the over a period of overtime, Putin should be actually withdrawing from the territory he seized in order to demonstrate his good faith efforts not to threaten European security.”
“If President Trump were the architect of that, I’d nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize,” Clinton continued.
WATCH:
During his 2024 campaign, Trump promised to end the war in Ukraine and has repeatedly said that it “never would have happened” if former President Joe Biden were not in charge. The president announced in May that negotiations would begin after a two-hour phone call with Putin, though the Russian president showed reluctance to have any conversations with Ukraine.
Trump, who became frustrated with Putin, gave Putin a 50-day deadline to negotiate peace talks on July 14 and threatened to impose “severe” sanctions and tariffs against Russia if he failed to come to the table. Trump later shortened the deadline to “10 or 12 days” in response to continued resistance from the Kremlin.
The president also imposed a 50% tariff on India on Aug. 11 for importing Russian oil. Despite that, India had signaled it would not stop buying oil from Russia.
In a final effort, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff met with Putin on Aug. 6 and spoke with him for three hours about potential peace talks.
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