President Donald Trump “holds both the economic and the military cards” to bring Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy together for peace talks, and he is the sole person who can bring their war to a stop, former Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie said on Newsmax Saturday. 

Putin also knows that the Russian people will learn that everything he has told them for the last two years “has been a lie,” Wilkie said on Newsmax’s “Saturday Agenda.”

“He’s been telling the Russians that Ukraine is just a traditional part of the Russian Empire, and that Zelenskyy doesn’t even count as a world leader because he’s just a rebel,” said Wilkie.

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