Fiona Hill said Trump viewed Russia's president as 'the kind of epitome of the badass populist.'
Hill also told Jong-Fast that Putin appeared to use women to distract Trump in his interactions with the former U.S. president.
"Putin made a big point, a big show of introducing Trump to the [female] interpreter," Hill said."Here's a really pretty woman. She's also a brilliant interpreter, but it was clearly meant to get Trump to look at her and not to be paying attention to what Putin was saying," the former Trump administration official explained.
Trump routinely has spoken favorably of Putin and his leadership of Russia. Many in Washington—Democrats and Republicans—raised concerns about the former president's apparent affinity for Putin, as Russia has long been seen as a top adversary of the U.S. on the world stage.
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