Former US Russia Advisor Revealed Putin Got โ€œFrustrated Many Timesโ€ With Trump Because The Russian Dictator Constantly โ€œHad To Keep Explaining Thingsโ€ To The Then-President

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Itโ€™s no secret that Donald Trump loves to brag about how chummy he allegedly was (and is) with Russiaโ€™s dictatorial President Vladimir Putin. Especially since Putinโ€™s violent, devastating invasion and attack against Ukraine, Trump has regularly and publicly declared that, had he been president, none of this would have happened, because he was on such good terms with the heinous dictator. (Not exactly something I would want to brag about, but I digress.)

But now, the former Trump administrationโ€™s US advisor to Russia is now speaking out and she claims that Putinโ€™s decision to hold off on the invasion until Biden was in power had nothing to do with the dictatorโ€™s personal feelings about or relationship with Donald Trump. But rather, she claims, it was a result of Putin getting so frustrated with Donald Trumpโ€™s ignorant self that the dictator simply did not want to deal with Trumpโ€™s blatant ignorance while in the midst of a violent invasion of a sovereign nation.

Fiona Hill โ€” who actually served as a key witness against the now ex-president during his first impeachment trials in the House over his infamous โ€œperfect callโ€ with Ukraineโ€™s president โ€” spoke at a Chicago Council on Global Affairs event this week, where she revealed that Vladimir Putin regularly got frustrated with the US president during Trumpโ€™s term in office, due to Donaldโ€™s resounding lack of knowledge on geopolitical issues. According to Hill, it was this factor that played a large role in Moscowโ€™s timing decision with regard to their invasion of Ukraine.

Fiona explained that one of the main driving forces behind Putinโ€™s decision to invade the sovereign nation on President Bidenโ€™s time came down to the fact that Putin fully expected Joe Biden to โ€œsue for peaceโ€ and he ultimately felt that Biden would be far easier to deal with in negotiations than someone like Trump, with a resounding level of ignorance on global politics. Hill, who served as the top Russia advisor on the National Security Council under Trump, said that the Russian dictator would often find himself extremely frustrated with Donald Trump because the Russian leader had โ€œto explain everything to [him] all the time.โ€

โ€œHe thought that somebody like Biden โ€” whoโ€™s a transatlanticist, who knows all about NATO, who actually knows where Ukraine is, and actually knows something about the history, and is very steeped in international affairs โ€” would be the right person to engage with,โ€ the former Trump-era official explained.

โ€œYou could see that he got frustrated many times with President Trump because he had to keep explaining things, and Putin doesnโ€™t like to do that,โ€ Hill stated before going on to add, โ€œEven though he loves to be able to spin his own version of events, he wants to have predictability in the person that heโ€™s engaging with.โ€

This is far from the first time Donald Trump has been accused of a serious level of ignorance when it came to global politics and affairs. Numerous former officials have spoken out since Trump left office with similar accusations against the now-former president, with Trumpโ€™s former national security advisor John Bolton going so far as to claim that Donald Trump once had to ask if Finland was a part of Russia.

According to Hillโ€™s recent book that was published last year, There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century, Trumpโ€™s former White House chief of staff Gen. John Kelly also once said Trump โ€œdoesnโ€™t know any history at all, even some of the basics on the US.

In her tell-all, Hill said that Donald Trumpโ€™s resounding ignorance on all things having to do with international affairs actually served as a major liabilityโ€ for US national security.โ€

โ€œWhenever he got to meetings and the conversation started, it seemed like the first time he was hearing things from world leaders,โ€ she wrote.

It seems Trumpโ€™s friendship with Vladimir Putin was all in his head. The dictator just couldnโ€™t stand dealing with Donald Trumpโ€™s stupidity.

How embarrassing?

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Andrea Thompson
Andrea has written political opinion stories for over a decade with a passion for center-left policies. Andrea is no longer a writer at Political Tribune and her X account is here: https://x.com/theliberalmommy

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