Donald Trump has been caught on a hot mic boasting that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to end the Ukraine war for him, even as Moscow continued bombing the country on Monday.

Speaking ahead of an unprecedented meeting at the White House, Trump could be heard telling European leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and French President Emmanuel Macron: “I think he wants to make a deal for me. Do you understand? As crazy as that sounds.”

The comments come after the president’s summit with Putin in Alaska on Friday, which resulted in Trump not achieving the ceasefire he had planned, or acting on any of the “severe” sanctions he threatened against Russia if it didn’t agree to a clear path to peace.

Instead, Putin made clear that the

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