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Sun Feb 20, 2022, 11:56 PM Feb 2022

Former top Trump Russia adviser details the sharp contrast between the former President and Biden




Fiona Hill doesn't know whether President Joe Biden can lead Western allies to ward off Russia's threat to Ukraine. But unlike his predecessor, he's trying.

Hill has a special vantage point on this slow-rolling crisis that US officials say could bring war in Europe at any moment. As a White House national security aide, she advised then-President Donald Trump on Russia and Ukraine -- and became a star witness in impeachment proceedings that resulted from his conduct......

"There's no Team America for Trump," Hill recalled. "Not once did I see him do anything to put America first. Not once. Not for a single second."

It showed in Trump's praise for the authoritarian leader of Russia, an American adversary that had boosted his finances as a business executive. It showed in his reluctance to embrace America's mutual defense commitments to European allies, which for decades have constrained Russian behavior; instead, Trump treated NATO as what Hill called a "protection racket."

Most notoriously, it showed in Trump's attempt to squeeze Ukraine's President for manufactured dirt on Biden to help his 2020 election campaign. He held up American military aid as a political lever as Ukraine faced the long-running Russian military threat that now has the entire world on edge.
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Former top Trump Russia adviser details the sharp contrast between the former President and Biden (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2022 OP
Fiona Hill: "Not once did I see him do anything to put America first. Not once. Not for a single sec LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2022 #1
Powerful Statement. OAITW r.2.0 Feb 2022 #2
" playing chess with a pigeon." underpants Feb 2022 #3
She states what anyone with normal cognitive skills watched for the entire SouthernDem4ever Feb 2022 #4
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