PoliticsFiona Hill , a former national security advisor, recalled Trump's 2018 press conference with Putin.- She called it "mortifying and humiliating" and said she tried to pull a fire alarm to end it.
- She said it was a "great idea" Biden isn't holding a joint conference with Putin after their Wednesday meeting.
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Speaking to "Don Lemon Tonight" on Tuesday, Fiona Hill called the 2018 conference "mortifying and humiliating for the country."
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She said: "I just thought, let's cut this off and try to end it. I couldn't come up with anything that just wouldn't add to the terrible spectacle."
She had told the BBC in February: "My initial thought was just 'How can I end this?' I literally did have in my mind the idea of faking some kind of medical emergency and throwing myself backwards with a loud blood-curdling scream into the media."
When asked to elaborate, Hill said: "I did seriously think about it. I first of all looked around to see if there was a fire alarm, but we were in a rather grand building attached to the presidential palace of the Finnish president, who had lent it to us for the occasion. And I couldn't see anything that resembled a fire alarm.
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According to Axios, Hill is part of the team prepping President Joe Biden for his first meeting with Putin in Geneva later Wednesday.
They are not holding a joint press conference. Hill told CNN she thought that was a "great idea."
At the 2018 joint press conference, Trump backed Putin over the US intelligence community on the subject of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Hill called the event "one of those moments where it was mortifying and humiliating for the country."
Hill, a former White House national security advisor, testified during Trump's first impeachment hearings, as House lawmakers investigated his dealings with Ukraine.