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Hillary Clinton Lauds The President In Surprising Reversal

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Hillary Clinton shockingly praised President Donald Trump for his recent remarks on the war in Ukraine, even as she used her platform to issue stark warnings about global democracy and take aim at figures inside Trump’s administration.

Clinton appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Wednesday, where she pointed to Trump’s latest comments on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“I welcomed what the president said yesterday,” Clinton noted, referring to a Truth Social post in which Trump said Ukraine could not only defend itself but potentially regain lost land from Russia.

That shift, she suggested, signaled the president was adjusting his position.

Trump’s sharper tone came as he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday during the United Nations General Assembly.

At the gathering, Trump called Russia a “paper tiger,” a jab that quickly drew a fiery rebuttal from Moscow.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov shot back the following day. “Russia is not a paper tiger,” he told RBC, according to state-backed TASS.

He instead compared Russia to a bear, remarking, “There are no ‘paper bears,’ and Russia is a real bear.”

Peskov also lamented that U.S.-Russia relations remain at a crawl, despite Trump’s direct outreach in his second term.

In August, Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska for his first face-to-face of the term, hoping to push toward a ceasefire. That meeting ended without results. Peskov acknowledged long-standing disputes in his remarks.

“Logjams in our relations formed over past decades with the past [U.S.] administrations are indeed very serious and they hinder moving forward,” he said.

Trump has long been criticized for signaling that Ukraine might have to yield territory to stop the fighting, a position that drew backlash.

But his Tuesday message, suggesting Ukraine could hold the line and win ground, marked a change.

Clinton argued that Trump was recognizing that Vladimir Putin only respects power.

“You have to show strength. You have to back strength. You have to be strong in order to deal with him,” she said.

She added that Putin “poses a clear and present danger to all of Europe, and therefore, to the United States.”

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Clinton pointed out that Trump’s new rhetoric suggests that if Ukraine receives support, it can “push Russia back.”

Trump’s new outlook differs from his early campaign trail commentary in 2024, when he claimed he could resolve the war in a single day because of his personal relationship with Putin.

Trump had previously been blunt in a tense February Oval Office meeting with Zelensky, telling him, “You don’t have the cards” and warning, “Your country is in big trouble. You’re not winning.”

Despite continued Russian strikes, Trump told reporters earlier this month he was still “not happy about the whole situation.”

Another meeting with Putin in Anchorage last month ended without progress toward a truce, though Trump labeled it “very productive.”

Clinton, who famously lost to Trump in the 2016 election, said in August that she would be willing to nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize if he brought the war to a close in a way that preserved Ukraine’s borders.

“If he could end it without putting Ukraine in a position where it had to concede its territory to the aggressor, had to, in a way, validate Putin’s vision of greater Russia, but instead could really stand up to Putin, to make it clear there must be a ceasefire,” Clinton said.

“If President Trump were the architect of that, I’d nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize.”

But Clinton’s praise of one action didn’t extend to other aspects of the Trump administration during her Wednesday remarks.

Speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative, she declared that democracy is under attack worldwide and inside the United States.

She said that for the first time in two decades, authoritarian governments outnumber democracies, with nearly three-quarters of the globe living under autocratic systems.

“In too many countries, including sadly right here in the United States, democracy is under siege,” she warned.

Clinton criticized the notion of “democratic backsliding,” saying the term minimizes the reality.

“The polite phrase for this is democratic backsliding. But that’s a euphemism that doesn’t meet the moment. Let’s call it what it is. It’s a power grab. The rule of law isn’t slipping. Leaders are sabotaging it. Rights aren’t being neglected. They’re being stripped.”

She also argued that citizens must act, saying, “No knight in shining armor is coming to save democracy. It’s on all of us to save our countries and our rights.”

Clinton lambasted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., accusing him of pushing policies that she called “crazy” and “costing lives.”

She said Kennedy’s approach would take America back to an era “when we aren’t vaccinating, we’re drinking raw milk, yeah, and people didn’t live.”

Kennedy, appearing alongside Trump earlier this week, joined the administration in suggesting a potential connection between autism in children and mothers taking Tylenol during pregnancy.

Clinton slammed those remarks as reckless. “Too many Americans are listening to this, you know, very destructive, anti-science tirade that we’re hearing from this administration. And it’s going to cost lives,” she said. “It already is costing lives.”

Watch Clinton’s full MSNBC interview here:

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