Donald Trump’s former rival on the presidential campaign trail, Hillary Clinton, said Friday that she would lean into the ‘Trump Nobel Peace Prize’ agenda if the US president put the Ukraine-Russia crisis to bed once and for all. The former secretary of state’s remarks aligned with the MAGA leader and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s meeting in Alaska, through which the POTUS sought to potentially end Russia’s war in Ukraine.

“Honestly, if he could bring about the end to this terrible war, where Putin is the aggressor, invading a neighbor country, 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, had to, in a way, validate Putin’s vision of greater Russia, but instead could really stand up to Putin, something we haven’t seen, but maybe this is the opportunity,” Clinton said of the chances of nominating Trump for the Nobel Prize herself.

Her comments started circulating online like wildfire after her appearance on the podcast “Raging Moderates.”

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However, she asserted that she would only stand tall on her promise if a ceasefire was in the picture. Detailing her conditions for the same, Hillary Clinton went on to say, “There will be no exchange of territory. And that, over a period of time, Putin should be actually withdrawing from the territory he’s seized in order to demonstrate his good-faith efforts, let us say, not to threaten European security.”

She affirmed that if Trump ended up being the “architect” of that peace-deal scenario, she’d do the needful and pitching the Republican politician as a sound candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. Clinton then reasoned, “…because my goal here is to not allow capitulation to Putin, aided and abetted by the United States. I think that’s a terrible, terrible precedent.”

The Democrat couldn’t help but point out how Trump’s desire for the “elusive Nobel Peace Prize” was spurring him to lean into his “peacemaker” alter-ego and possibly even stand up to Putin on “behalf of not just Ukraine and its democracy and its very brave people, but frankly, on behalf of our own security and interests.”

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Right ahead of the Trump-Putin summit, the 79-year-old Republican president sat down for an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier about the expectations he had with the meeting. Taking a seat across onboard Air Force One, the journalist shared the word about Hillary Clinton’s message.

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“Did you see that Hillary Clinton yesterday said that if you got this deal done, and not capitulate to Putin, she would nominate you for the Nobel Peace Prize,” Baier told Trump. The president then replied, “Well, that was very nice. I may have to start liking her again.”

However, as it turns out, the Friday meeting ended on an inconclusive note, with Trump and Putin returning to their stations without a peace deal in place after a nearly three-hour meeting at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.

With Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy left uninvited to the Friday meet, he later said he would travel to the US capital on Monday for talks with Trump. The US president has since briefed Zelenskyy all about the Putin summit over a “lengthy” call, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.