A former adviser to Donald Trump thinks he’s getting played by Vladimir Putin in the flailing efforts to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

Former national security adviser John Bolton told The Daily Beast Podcast that Trump, 79, isn’t exactly playing a “complex game of three-dimensional chess” in the Russia-Ukraine war, contrary to what many of his supporters believe—in fact, it may be the American president who’s getting manipulated.

“He’s barely doing this one move at a time,” Bolton, 77, said of Trump’s peacemaking bid. “I think because he thinks Vladimir Putin is his friend and, in the context of Ukraine, he trusts Putin more than he trusts Zelensky, I think what you’re seeing is that Putin, going back to the first term, used his KGB training to figure out how to manipu

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