Fox senior political analyst Brit Hume: Trump “got played by Putin and it dragged on for months”
Hume: “He was being jollied along”
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From the July 2025, edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier
BRIT HUME (SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST): Look, it's clear from what the president himself has said, although he wouldn't put it this way, that he got played by Putin and it dragged on for months.
And he was being jollied along under the impression that Putin had obviously given him, that Putin wanted to end the war and was prepared to negotiate from where we are. And it's pretty clear now that Putin didn't want to end the war where we are. He had more conquests in mind and perhaps wanted his whole, original purpose of taking Ukraine to be fulfilled.