Donald Trump "doesn't make plans" and that will be no different as he tries to negotiate peace. This was said by his former national security adviser John Bolton, SkyNews reports, quoted by FOKUS.
"What we are seeing now is Vladimir Putin maneuvering to get to the point where he would have a one-on-one phone call with Trump“, he told our host Jonathan Samuels.
Asked if he thought the Russian president was manipulating Trump, Bolton said: "I think so."
"If you look at the American position on the war, the only regret in the Kremlin is that they didn't ask for more.“
He said this puts Vladimir Zelensky in a "difficult place" to get the US to negotiate with him and then negotiate separately with Russia.
But when asked if Trump might be hiding a plan that we all don't know about while trying to secure peace, Bolton said: "No, of course not."
"He doesn't make plans. He thinks that relations between countries are the true equivalent of personal relations between leaders."
Bolton added that while Trump was looking forward to his conversation with Putin, he explained that "that's not Putin's view" and that the Russian president sees Trump as "an easy target".