Hillary Clinton teases Trump with Nobel Peace Prize nomination if he ends war in Ukraine

President Trump was baited with a Nobel Peace Prize nomination from one of his most outspoken political enemies — Hillary Clinton.

Mrs. Clinton, whom Mr. Trump defeated in the 2016 presidential election, told the hosts of the “Raging Moderates” podcast that she would nominate him for the prestigious award if he could end the war in Ukraine without letting Russian President Vladimir Putin secure territory from his Eastern European neighbor.

“Honestly, if he could bring about the end to this terrible war, if he could end it without putting Ukraine in a position where it had to concede its territory to the aggressor, could really stand up to Putin — something we haven’t seen, but maybe this is the opportunity — if President Trump were the architect of that, I’d nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize,” Mrs. Clinton told podcast host Jessica Tarlov in an interview posted Friday.

“Because my goal here is to not allow capitulation to Putin,” she noted.

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said Mrs. Clinton has no choice but to see the president as an effective world leader.  

“Crooked Hillary was defeated badly in the 2016 election to the point that her career was effectively over and she had to find herself in the woods,” Mr. Cheung said in a statement. “Even a person like Hillary can’t deny the success of President Trump who has completed peace deals around the world.”

Mr. Trump has already been nominated for the Nobel by world leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, for his ending multiple wars.

Mrs. Clinton’s remarks came as Mr. Trump flew to Alaska to meet with Mr. Putin to assess where his Russian counterpart stands on a potential ceasefire agreement with Ukraine.

Mrs. Clinton, the former secretary of state, is under scrutiny by Mr. Trump’s administration for the Russia hoax.

Mr. Trump has said he will know within minutes of Friday’s talks whether he should walk away or sees a chance at a second meeting where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would join both leaders.

“We’re going to find out where everybody stands, and I’ll know within the first two minutes, three minutes, four minutes, two or five minutes,” Mr. Trump told reporters on Thursday.

“We tend to find out whether or not we’re going to have a good meeting or a bad meeting. And if it’s a bad meeting, it’ll end very quickly. And if it’s a good meeting, we’re going to end up getting peace in the pretty near future.”