Europe’s leaders are a “big impediment” to President Donald Trump’s work toward brokering a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, according to retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt, who told Newsmax, Sunday, he has doubts about whether the president will be able to bring an agreement between the warring nations. 

“I appreciate the president’s optimism and his stick-to-itiveness, but he’s got a big impediment called the European leaders,” Holt said on Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.” 

The White House has denied accounts from European sources who claimed, according to a Wall Street Journal report, that he had told them Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t want to end the war. 

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