White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Harrison Fields told Newsmax that Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to use a game of checkers against President Donald Trump, who is “playing chess.”

Fields told Newsmax’s “National Report” on Monday that Putin apparently hasn’t figured out who has the upper hand. “Putin thinks he’s playing a good game of chess, but he’s not. He’s playing checkers. This president is the one playing chess.”

Fields said Putin may soon learn more about the president’s capabilities. “And he’s going to learn very soon that this president is not going to allow him, Putin, to really run the world the way he was doing before under the weak and inept leadership of Biden and Harris.”

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