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Fiona Hill says Putin ‘had to keep explaining things’ to Trump
The hill ^ | 05/19/2022 | Monique Beals

Posted on 05/19/2022 6:46:55 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Former Trump White House national security official Fiona Hill said Russian President Vladimir Putin had “to explain everything to all the time” to former President Trump.

“He had to keep explaining things, and Putin doesn’t like to do that,” Hill said this week, speaking at a Chicago Council on Global Affairs event in remarks reported by Insider.

Hill added that Putin intentionally chose to invade Ukraine during President Biden’s tenure in the White House.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 10percent4bigguy; bidenswar; explaining; fionahill; hill; hunterscashcow; putin; trump; ukraine; ukraineslushfund; ukrainestrikesagain
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To: newzjunkey

That, plus listening for “You can trust me” <~~ makes me immediately think they can’t be trusted.


81 posted on 05/19/2022 7:52:15 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: cymbeline

A question is an excellent idea if you don’t know something.


That goes without saying. I’m talking about all the other reasons for asking questions.


82 posted on 05/19/2022 7:57:11 AM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
What a comical idiot. Bottom line is she admits that Putin felt much more comfortable and confident invading Ukraine with Biden as President as opposed to Trump.

How again is this bad thing for Trump?
83 posted on 05/19/2022 8:03:04 AM PDT by GLDNGUN
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Roger Stone sounded the alarm about this woman early in the Trump admin: unfortunately Trump didn’t follow the warning.


84 posted on 05/19/2022 8:04:34 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fiona’s dinner party invitations must have dried up since working for the Trump admin.

Isn’t it possible that Trump was trying to get Putin to repeat his lies and drilled down on the lies by making him repeat and repeat them? It is certainly a known negotiation tactic, as well as a tactic used in courtrooms.

But leftists, of course, always think they are always the smartest gals in the room.


85 posted on 05/19/2022 8:12:15 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Government is the problem." --Milton Friedman)
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To: cuban leaf

” I’m talking about all the other reasons for asking questions.”

I thought maybe Fiona was suggesting that Trump was asking stupid quesstions.


86 posted on 05/19/2022 8:15:12 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump certainly doesn’t have biden’s level of comprehension.


87 posted on 05/19/2022 8:15:52 AM PDT by Leep (Don't say God.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Vladimir Putin had “to explain everything to all the time” to former President Trump.

Probably he just couldn't get a straight answer from Putin. Some people like to talk in riddles rather than give a straight answer or straight explanation. I see it here on Free Republic too.

88 posted on 05/19/2022 8:16:25 AM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I don’t believe her for a minute! My take is that Putin holds great respect for Trump. Trump is probably the toughest and fairest adversary he ever met.


89 posted on 05/19/2022 8:17:52 AM PDT by elpadre (W)
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To: cuban leaf
What’s comical about this is that a powerful tool of successful businessmen is to “play dumb” at key times.

All kinds of successful people do this. It may have been in Stephen Ambrose's biography of Eisenhower where I read that Ike knowingly employed his big smile and a blank look before a hostile press who already thought he was dumb, to avoid revealing sensitive information.

He was already a great general and strategist, and then the President of Columbia University, who got things done without fanfare because that's just what you do—and whom the Democrats insisted was dumb and "do-nothing." Because that's what most Democrats are.

90 posted on 05/19/2022 8:19:33 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Government is the problem." --Milton Friedman)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

President Trump is a businessman - a first-rate problem-solver.
Problem solvers start by asking a lot of questions and listening carefully to the answers.

Fiona Hill saw this as Putin having to explain everything to Trump.

She’s an idiot.


91 posted on 05/19/2022 8:24:21 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It sounds like Fiona is ready to start cashing in with a fake ass, ‘tell all book’ about President Trump. Sh*theads with no loyalty and lots of creed.


92 posted on 05/19/2022 8:43:50 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just like Oz!


93 posted on 05/19/2022 8:53:29 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump asked him questions…. Putin explained? Makes sense

Has Putin explained anything to sleepy Joe yet?


94 posted on 05/19/2022 9:15:40 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Gosh another hit piece on Trump. What’s the count on FR up to now? He has them scared shi%$ess.


95 posted on 05/19/2022 9:15:50 AM PDT by navymom1
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To: BiglyCommentary
“You could see that he (Putin) got frustrated many times with President Trump,” Hill said. “Even though he loves to be able to spin his own version of events, he wants to have predictability in the person that he’s engaging with.” 

 

She's saying this like it's a bad thing, but accidentally reveals that Trump was better at this than all of the so-called experts.

96 posted on 05/19/2022 9:22:28 AM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: absalom01

Pooty was getting frustrating that Trump was not just accepting the bull being thrown out.


97 posted on 05/19/2022 9:33:34 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: ChicagoConservative27

As Trump came from the business world, he assumed that people that were of long standing in a job could perform as professionals. Again and again he failed to see that the political, and therefore, the governmental world were full of people with no character or ability.

Fiona Hill


98 posted on 05/19/2022 9:56:03 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: BiglyCommentary

Who can blame him? Losing at a game you’ve been playing your whole life to a guy from reality TV and real estate has got to chafe.

But that was Trump’s job, and he did it well. Four years without a war or “police action” of choice was pretty cool. But doesn’t serve the interest of our political elite.


99 posted on 05/19/2022 10:35:11 AM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: Soul of the South

You’ve got to admit, the pool to choose from is practically empty.


100 posted on 05/19/2022 10:37:15 AM PDT by Quilla
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