If Donald Trump is elected to a second term, it will cause the US to lose its credibility on the global stage.
We have been the gold standard of democratic elections. Hill, who served as the top Russia advisor on the National Security Council under the Trump administration, told New York Times Magazine that if Trump returns to power, all of that will be rolled back.
She said it would be more than a diplomatic shock.
The same concerns would apply if Trump had been reelected, according to the former national security advisor. Trump has been teasing a presidential bid.
Hill, who was a key witness in the impeachment of Trump over his dealings with the Ukranian government, compared him to authoritarian leaders.
In the course of his presidency, Trump would come more to resemble Putin in political practice and demeanor than any of his recent American presidential predecessors, according to Hill.
Hill said that Trump wanted the same arrangement as Orb, where he could push the margins and stay in power.
Orb, who recently won reelection to a fourth consecutive four-year term, has been criticized by democracy watchdogs and the EU for his anti-democratic tendencies as well as human rights abuses. Critics of the Hungarian leader say that he rigged his country's electoral system to ensure that the opposition had little chance of winning.
Hill said that Trump told world leaders that his first two years had been taken away from him because of the Russia hoax.
Hill, who was the national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia for the National Intelligence Council, excoriated Trump over his dealings with Ukraine. The top Russia expert has claimed that Trump helped pave the way for Putin to launch an unprovoked war in February.
Hill said that Trump used Ukraine as a "plaything" for his own purposes.
She said that Trump had privatized foreign policy for his own purposes and had a "narrow goal" of remaining in power.
In a statement to the Times, Trump said that Hill didn't know the first thing she was talking about. She would be nothing if she didn't have an accent.
On July 25, 2016 Trump made a phone call to the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in order to get him to launch an investigation into allegations of corruption against Joe Biden and his son. $400 million in military aid to Ukraine was taken away by Trump at the same time. The assistance was eventually released, but only after Trump was made aware of a whistle blower complaint.
Hill said she saw the thread between the Zelenskyy phone call and the fatal events of that day, after Trump provoked a deadly insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
I remembered that in 2020 Putin had changed Russia's Constitution to allow him to stay in power longer. Hill said that this was Trump pulling Putin.
It was extremely difficult to work in the Trump administration, especially for those of us who were hoping to push back against the Russians, to make sure that their intervention in 2016 didn't happen.
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