As he tries to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine, President Donald Trump said it is for greater reasons than merely Nobel Peace Prize nominations: He is hoping it helps him “get to heaven.”
“If I can save 7,000 people per week from being killed – I want to get to heaven, if possible; I’m hearing I’m not doing well,” Trump said in a televised phone interview Tuesday morning. “If I can get to heaven, this will be a reason.”
Trump briefly left the European leaders in the White House Oval Office to call Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Monday – and Putin answered eagerly at 1 a.m. his local time – to discuss the urgency of the next step of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy doing a 1-on-1 with his 3 1/2-year war counterpart.
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