Vladimir Putin wants Donald Trump to destroy Hillary Clinton ‘because she once ordered Barack Obama to snub and insult the Russian leader’
The Democratic nominee and the Russian hardman have butted heads for years
PUTIN is backing Trump to win the US election next week because of all the times she has insulted the strongman Russian leader - including the time she told Obama to SNUB him.
US spies are investigating whether the WikiLeaks dump of Clinton campaign emails were unearthed by hackers associated with the Kremlin.
Putin and Trump appear to have a warm relationship and Putin has been accused of trying to influence the US election.
Now a former US ambassador to Moscow has said that the Russian president holds a grudge against the Republican nominee.
Michael McFaul told : "She has policies and a history that the Russians don't like.
"It's frequently forgotten because there's so much noise about Trump and Putin. But this history is real, and Putin doesn't forget these things."
In her 2014 autobiography, she recalls telling Obama: "Don't appear too eager to work together. Don't flatter Putin with high-level attention.
"If Putin is restrained and doesn't push beyond Crimea into eastern Ukraine it will not be because he has lost his appetite for more power, territory and influence."