# Hillary Clinton says she believes Putin has something on Trump

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- Published: 2026-10-22T16:30:08+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-22T18:45:47+00:00
- Section: Politics
- Language: en
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> Clinton called Trump Putin's "willing puppet" and warned that Putin will not stop at Ukraine. She sees the resistance to releasing the Epstein files as confirmation of the theory that Putin holds compromising material.

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Hillary Clinton has again called US President Donald Trump Vladimir Putin's puppet. She recalled saying the same at a debate ten years ago, when she was a presidential candidate. "Yes, a puppet. He is a puppet. He is Putin's willing puppet, who helps Putin," Clinton said.

She also warned that Putin will not stop at Ukraine. These words come from a political opponent of Trump, and she offers no documents to back them up. Clinton presents this as her own conviction: she still believes Putin keeps photos, videos or something else.

In Clinton's view, Trump's concessions to Moscow may be explained by compromising material that Putin allegedly has. She describes the American president's logic this way: keep Putin happy so that he does not make public what he has.

Clinton regards Trump's resistance to the release of the Epstein files as confirmation of the compromising-material theory. This is her interpretation: she does not cite any specific documents.

"I still believe Putin has something on Trump," Clinton said, as reported by non-state Belarusian outlets. She said that at the debate ten years ago she warned about Trump's ties to the Kremlin, and that now, in her words, the world is seeing confirmation of this first-hand.

Clinton suggested that Trump wants to divide the world into spheres of influence. According to this version, the US would get North and South America, Putin would get Russia and Europe, and Xi Jinping would get the rest of the world. It is not yet known how the Trump administration will respond to these statements.

In January 2026, the US Department of Justice published 3000000 pages, 180000 photos and 2000 videos in the Jeffrey Epstein case. This happened six weeks after the department missed the deadline set by Trump.

Earlier still, in November 2025, Politico, citing correspondence released by US Democrats, reported that a year before his death Epstein had tried to reach the Russian Foreign Ministry in order to pass information about Trump to Lavrov and Putin.