On July 11th, exactly two days before the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, the journalist of TV Rain Ekaterina Kotrikadze interviewed Mrs. Victoria Nuland, the US Department of State's Undersecretary for Political Affairs and Deputy Secretary of State. In response to a question asked by the journalist, Mrs. Victoria Nuland said that if Putin bets that Donald Trump will be the American president, he will get an unfortunate surprise. The relevant part of her interview is published as follows for the reference of Lanka Lead News readers.

Ekaterina Kotrikadze: I'm sure you're being heard by the Russian audience Victoria but at the same time we're witnessing turbulence in  Washington Donald Trump has the chance to return to the White House and when we speak formally of Peace initiatives but actually about ultimatums for Ukraine.  Then I cannot not ask you the question if Trump is elected what will happen to  Ukraine? will he agree to give Putin his demanded territories?

 Victoria Nuland: Well first of all I  don't believe Donald Trump will be elected by the American people. This man is a felon he is a liar he is not a supporter of basic US Democratic freedom and principles. He's talking about locking up Americans locking up immigrants hurting our economy etc. So I don't think that Donald Trump is going to be president. So if that's what  Putin's betting on he's going to get an unhappy surprise. I think that's that is number one. Number two is Trump to be elected and were he to force  Ukraine into a bad peace. It will be very bad for the United States it will be very bad for Europe and our allies because we know what Putin will do we've been to this movie before he will take the deal. He will sit on some of that territory in Ukraine. That he gets and he will wait and he will rest and he will refit and he will come for the rest of Ukraine and then he will keep coming West again spending all of Russia's treasure. Killing hundreds and thousands of Russian young men for his territorial ambition rather than building the Russian State rather than fixing your economy and your schools and your hospitals. So I think it will be a terrible mistake by Trump and  I think that it will only extend this period of blood when we all should be thinking about our citizens and rebuilding.

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