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"He would then manspread for effect," she said of the Russian leader, who has been widely condemned for invading Ukraine.

"I thought he put his foot over it, but at least he didn't withdraw then," Bolton said during a talk hosted by The Washington Post in which he pointed out Trump's 2018 suggestion to leave the alliance. The former secretary of state then said that Putin's route to any sort of victory in Ukraine would be tied to a Trump victory in 2024 — pointing to the former US president's disdain for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a recent interview said that Russian President Vladimir Putin was "very sexist" towards her, while also noting that they would sometimes have "helpful" interactions away from the media.