At a 2018 meeting in Finland, she said, Trump showed favor and trust in Putin when he was asked whether he believed Moscow would not interfere in the 2016 US election.
“Watching this from afar in Helsinki, I thought there was a real friendship or at least admiration between them. But during the telephone conversations that I had with Putin, everything was very mixed. Some of them were friendly, and some were not,” she said.
In the current White House team, there is no consensus on the ultimate goals for which the head of the Russian Federation is waging a war in Ukraine, Wiles claims. Trump, in her opinion, “does not believe” that Putin “will be satisfied with the Donetsk region.”
“Privately, Trump did not believe this. He does not believe that Putin wants peace. Donald Trump believes that Putin wants all of Ukraine,” summed up the White House chief of staff.
