Russian strongman Vladimir Putin tried to cozy up to President Trump — slamming the committee who has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to people who “did nothing for peace.”

Asked by reporters whether he thought Trump was unjustly passed over for the prestigious award that was handed out on Friday, Putin replied that he wasn’t the one who made that choice.

“There have been cases where the committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to people who have done nothing for peace,” the Russian dictator said in a stinging rebuke Friday in Tajikistan, where he was attending a summit of former Soviet nations. 4

“A person comes, good or bad, and in a month, in two months, boom. For what? He didn’t do anything at all. In my view, these decisions have done enormous damage to the prestige of this p

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