Former Trump Cabinet member Robert Wilkie said President Donald Trump’s decision to sit down with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week might not have delivered immediate results, but it signaled a vital shift back to diplomacy — a move Wilkie framed in Churchillian terms: “Jaw jaw is better than war war.”
Wilkie, who served as secretary of Veterans Affairs and under secretary of defense, joined host Tom Basile on Newsmax’s “America Right Now” on Saturday morning to analyze Trump’s Friday summit with Putin and preview Monday’s scheduled White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Wilkie, who sat in Trump’s Cabinet for three years, said he recognized immediately that Trump was dissatisfied with what came out of the meeting.
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