NEW: Hillary Floats Nobel Peace Prize For Trump In Surprising Twist

Before hell freezes over, there remains the possibility that Hillary Clinton will nominate Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize.

But such an arrangement would only happen if Trump manages to negotiate an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine, Clinton said this week while acknowledging that her former rival would be a worthy recipient.

Clinton told “Raging Moderates” podcast host Jessica Tarlov that her ultimate goal is to see Vladimir Putin isolated rather than rewarded with territory still under his control — an unlikely scenario, White House officials stressed this week in advance of Trump’s meeting in the Russian president on Friday.

“Honestly, if he could bring about the end to this terrible war, if he could end it without putting Ukraine in a position where it had to concede its territory to the aggressor, could really stand up to Putin — something we haven’t seen, but maybe this is the opportunity — if President Trump were the architect of that, I’d nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize,” Clinton told Tarlov.

“Because my goal here is to not allow capitulation to Putin,” she added.

Trump spent Friday morning en route to Alaska, where he is due to meet Putin face-to-face for the first time in years. The president estimated the meeting’s chances of failure at 25%, signaling he is optimistic about his ability to curry a deal with Putin that will leave both him and Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy satisfied.

Clinton’s admission is all the more surprising given Trump’s administration recently referred her for criminal prosecution over the 2016 Russia hoax, and there are rumors U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is reading charges against her, former President Barack Obama, and a panoply of influential former advisors.

During the 2016 election, Clinton famously argued that Trump couldn’t be trusted to negotiate in good faith with Russia. She mocked him as “not just unprepared – he’s temperamentally unfit” and “too thin-skinned” to be president.

“He praises dictators like Vladimir Putin and picks fights with our friends,” she said on one occasion, the NY Post reported.

Her attacks continued into his second administration, when in February she referred to Trump in an op-ed as “dumb.”

“Instead of a strong America using all our strengths to lead the world and confront our adversaries, Mr. Trump’s America will be increasingly blind and blundering, feeble and friendless,” she wrote for the NYT.

Last October, Clinton suggested Trump has become “more unhinged, [and] more unstable” since he lost the 2020 election. Trump has accused Clinton of orchestrating a cover-up to falsely suggest he conspired with Russia to win the 2016 election, a charge Clinton denies.