People like Trump and Putin lacking leadership for members of the local community (9)
I believe the answer is:
residents
'people' is the definition.
(resident is a kind of person)
'local community' is the wordplay.
'local' becomes 'resident' (a resident of a particular area).
'community' becomes 's' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'resident'+'s'='RESIDENTS'
'like trump and putin lacking leadership for members of the' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for residents that I've seen before include "folk living down the road?" , "Lodgers" , "doctors" .)