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Hillary Clinton swipes at Trump, Putin during portrait unveiling

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took swipes at former President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin during her portrait unveiling Tuesday. At an event Tuesday highlighting her contributions to American diplomacy as the 67th secretary of state, Hillary Clinton made barbed remarks about her political rivals, issuing thinly veiled criticisms of her one-time presidential opponent Donald Trump and taking direct aim at Russian leader Vladimir Putin. After being introduced by current Secretary of State Antony Blinken, she thanked him for the contributions he had made so far, remarking that at one point it would have been nearly unthinkable for the United States and its allies to remain united behind Ukraine because of what she described as damage done during the Trump administration -- without ever calling out the former president by name. "We had burned so bridges with our allies and our friends, so reinstating a foreign policy that plays to the best of American val...