Fiona Hill

Trump thinks of just himself.

And if he's thinking of American heroes, it's just as he defines them, not as they might define him.

It is cringey.

And I felt like that many, many times when I was in his presence with world leaders.

I would cringe because he was also making himself incredibly obvious.

And that's what Putin is.

He's the master of obviously domineering and dominating people.

He's the master of seeing the obvious, but he's also the master of digging a bit deeper.

Now, in terms of compromising material, we've all got all kinds of information on Trump and the enrichment of him and his family, meme coins.

I mean, it's all in plain sight.

And so, I mean, what more do we need to know about?

We've got the Epstein files and all the scandals about all of that at the moment.

I mean, Putin doesn't need any of that.

I remember once saying to

One of the Russian ambassadors, because I was supposed to be obviously giving them the kind of equivalent of, you know, day marsh about interference in the United States elections.

And he ran off a whole host of different things that different people, Americans had done and said, can you blame us for that, Miss Hill?

And I thought, got me.

Of course not, because we do plenty of things ourselves that actually lay ourselves open to this kind of manipulation or the mistakes that we make that turn out to be fateful.

And we can't blame Russia for everything here.

No, I'm blaming them for finding information and for using that because, again, we're producing plenty of these scandalous episodes and problems ourselves, and they just know how to use them.