President Donald Trump is using his dealmaking skills to help negotiate peace between Russia and Ukraine, State Department principal deputy spokesman Tommy Pigott told Newsmax Monday.

“You’re seeing President Trump, the dealmaker in action,” Piggott said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “He’s been working day in and day out … making sure we have that America First foreign policy that leads to peace through strength.”

Under President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, we have seen a de-escalation in the war and the first substantive peace talks in years, Pigott said.

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